10 Entertainment Trends We’re Ready to Say Goodbye to in 2023 … – PureWow

4. Whitewashing (and, yes, we’re still talking about this in 2023)

Hollywood’s diversity problem is nothing new. And while there have arguably been less egregious examples of whitewashing in recent years, the fact remains that Hollywood still has improvements to make.

For instance, in 2022, we saw this with the casting of Daisy Edgar-Jones (a non-Jewish woman) as Carole King in Sony’s biopic, Beautiful, which led to major backlash on social media. One fan even reached out to King directly and said, “Please, please can you speak out against this casting. They’re erasing us.”

Then there was the casting of Bradley Cooper, a non-Jewish actor, as the famed Jewish composer, Leonard Bernstein. Understandably, fans were not happy to see the actor in surfaced photos from the set, where he’s seen sporting a prosthetic nose and chin. *Sigh.*