Cameron Crowe Apologizes for Emma Stone's Aloha Casting

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Not cool. Cameron Crowe took to his personal website The Uncool on Tuesday, June 2, to apologize for a major controversy surrounding his new movie Aloha.

The romantic dramedy has been widely criticized for its white-washed portrayal of the Hawaiian islands, enlisting an almost entirely Caucasian roster of stars and raising eyebrows in particular for the casting of Emma Stone. Stone, 26, stars alongside Bradley Cooper, Rachel McAdams, Bill Murray, Alec Baldwin, and Danny McBride as Allison Ng, a woman who is one-quarter Hawaiian with a half-Chinese father.

Filmmaker Crowe, who has been celebrated in the past for works like Jerry Maguire and Almost Famous, acknowledged the backlash against the Arizona-born actress of Swedish, Pennsylvania Dutch, English, Scottish, and Irish descent playing an Asian character.

"Thank you so much for all the impassioned comments regarding the casting of the wonderful Emma Stone in the part of Allison Ng," Crowe wrote in his note. "I have heard your words and your disappointment, and I offer you a heartfelt apology to all who felt this was an odd or misguided casting choice."

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This photo provided by Sony Pictures Entertainment shows, Bradley Cooper, left, and Emma Stone, in a scene from Columbia Pictures' "Aloha."

[geek tragedy]

1. apparently the movie totally sucks too, so just a fail all around nt

[FSogol]

2. Washington Post film critics gave it 1-1/2 stars, yet they gave disaster flick, San Andreas 2-1/2

stars. LOL

[geek tragedy]

3. San Andreas at least has The Rock nt

[peecoolyour]

6. And Alexandra Daddario.

[TwilightGardener]

4. She looks about as Asian as any average Northern European.

That is to say, not at all.

[peecoolyour]

5. She's the only reason I'd be interested in watching it, but I don't care for romcoms. nt

[NuclearDem]

8. Emma Stone's one of my favorites.

But this movie is a stinker.

[LittleBlue]

7. I bet Emma is thrilled

The poor reviews combined with this comment will make a lot of Hollywood stars think twice before signing on to his future projects.

No matter how bad a movie or casting choice , the directors and actors are never supposed to bad mouth either.

I get the sense that he thought he could fill a movie with a bunch of big names and it would be a success.

[Bluenorthwest]

9. Cameron Crow is a person I could criticize joyfully for at least 20 minutes but he does not in fact

bad mouth or even criticize her, he is critical of his own work in casting her in the role. That's different. Very. And I bet Emma agrees with him. Crappy, even ludicrous casting choices have doomed more than one of his films, Elizabeth Town, Vanilla Sky. He's a hit or miss guy. Usually miss.