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February 22, 2016 07:05 pm PST

Mara Rooney regrets playing whitewashed native American

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Rooney Mara has found her guilt regarding her lily-white turn as Tiger Lily in the derided and disastrous Peter Pan prequel "Pan," which set fire to about $200m all told.

Even before Joe Wrights live-action retelling of Peter Pan hit theaters, the production came under fire for casting Rooney Mara as the Native American Tiger Lily, and thousands signed a petition objecting to Maras casting. Now, less than a week before the Academy Awards and in the middle of the #OscarsSoWhite controversy, Mara has opened up about her own involvement in the whitewashing debate in a new interview with The Telegraph.

I really hate, hate, hate that I am on that side of the whitewashing conversation, she told The Telegraph. I really do. I dont ever want to be on that side of it again. I can understand why people were upset and frustrated.

Tell me, o internet, how Mara came to hate, hate, hate, hate being on the wrong side of the conversation, but only after the movie became a career-blighting bomb.


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