{"id":28581,"date":"2012-07-15T09:53:45","date_gmt":"2012-07-15T15:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/15\/no-doubt-kingsley-will-also-play-the-jim-rhodes-and-mrs-arbogast.html"},"modified":"2014-01-08T11:45:28","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T18:45:28","slug":"no-doubt-kingsley-will-also-play-the-jim-rhodes-and-mrs-arbogast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/15\/no-doubt-kingsley-will-also-play-the-jim-rhodes-and-mrs-arbogast.html","title":{"rendered":"No doubt\u00a0Kingsley will also play the Jim Rhodes and Mrs. Arbogast"},"content":{"rendered":"

With all due respect to Mr. Kingsley, it's difficult to believe that Marvel couldn't find a … y'know … Chinese<\/i> actor to play the Mandarin? \u00a0Unless the character is no longer Chinese, which would be even more odd.<\/p>\n

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What Comicbook.com reported earlier this year is now official. Ben Kingsley is playing The Mandarin in Iron Man 3.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEarlier this year, Comicbook.com was first to report that our sources close to the production of Iron Man 3 had told us that Ben Kingsley would definitely be playing The Mandarin in Iron Man 3. Now, M…\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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With all due respect to Mr. Kingsley, it's difficult to believe that Marvel couldn't find a … y'know … Chinese actor to play the Mandarin? \u00a0Unless the character is no longer Chinese, which would be even more odd. Reshared post from +Comicbook.com What Comicbook.com reported earlier this year is now official. Ben Kingsley is playing … Continue reading “No doubt\u00a0Kingsley will also play the Jim Rhodes and Mrs. Arbogast”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,525],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-marvel-cinematic-universe"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":130486,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/24\/when-bad-stereotypes-and-modern-geopolitics-and-money-collide.html","url_meta":{"origin":28581,"position":0},"title":"When Bad Stereotypes and Modern Geopolitics (and Money) Collide","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 24-Apr-16 9:26pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So Marvel has gotten a lot of heat in some circles about \"whitewashing\" the character of the Ancient One in the upcoming Dr. Strange movie, genderbending the timeless Oriental master of the mystic arts into a bald Tilda Swinton. 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