Following its controversial casting of Gal Godot as Cleopatra, Paramount Pictures announced today that it has landed Jennifer Aniston to star in Hiro!, the new biopic about Japanese Emperor Hirohito. Quentin Tarantino is slated to direct.
Paramount vice president Blanca Whiteman announced the deal, while acknowledging the issues the studio faces after casting Godot. “We thought about using George Takei, to be more PC about this,” Whiteman said, “But after Gal, well, you know the old saying, bad publicity is still publicity.”
Aniston said she’s thrilled with the part. “I’ve always dreamed of playing … that guy,” she said. “And Quentin told me the movie ends with a huge bang!”
After hearing about the casting, a spokesperson for mostly peace-activist group Antifa issued a statement. “But she’s white! Then again, she’s identifies as female, so we’re approving this in the name of diversity.”
Paramount is also in discussion with Ryan Reynolds about its upcoming film about Martin Luther King Jr.
6 replies on “Jennifer Aniston to Play Hirohito in New Biopic”
So the Godot casting is a problem because they overlooked the 8 perfectly good Egyptian actresses two of which speaks the language Cleopatra spoke. Hollywood can’t even get Woke right.
Cleopatra wasn’t Egyptian, she was Greek.
The Ptolemies practiced brother sister marriage but had one or two Egyptians in the mix. This is probably why the royal incest did not kill off the line. They can’t have had 6 generations of incest without genetic mutations accumulation and killing the line off.
I know he’s not an actor(or ishe),but how about Colin Kaepernick as Abraham Lincoln?
How about Brie Larson as Ghandi?
Thanks for the chuckle, Michael. And yes I changed my screen name. ACTS convinced this was better protocol.