Now the life of Cameron Crowe is growing complicated. The writer-director is apologizing to anyone offended that he cast Emma Stone in a partially Asian, partially Hawaiian role in the film “Aloha.”
Stone’s character, Captain Allison Ng, is a quarter Hawaiian, and she has a half-Chinese father. Some, including the Media Action Network for Asian Americans, saw Stone’s casting as another example of Hollywood whitewashing Asian-American movie roles.
