A Mighty Heart

Before The Last Airbender, the biggest racebending controversy of the decade was probably over Angelia Jolie playing the character of mixed-race French journalist Mariane Pearl, who was five months pregnant when her husband Daniel was abducted by terrorists in Pakistan in 2002. While Jolie was personally attacked for accepting the role, for which she wore heavy makeup to darken her skin, the fault may have been Brad Pitt’s. His production company acquired the rights to the memoir the movie is based on while he was still married to Jennifer Aniston, and she was his original choice for the role. For what it is worth, Pearl went on record saying she was thrilled that Jolie was playing her. But then you would probably feel the same way if one of the most beautiful people in the world was portraying you on the big screen, regardless of race… or possibly even gender. Either way you end up looking sexy.