Twilight's Wolf Pack is culturally correct!

Earlier this month I posted a blog about getting actual Iranians to play a Persian character in the upcoming “Prince of Persia” movie. Well today Sci-Fi Wire released news that the upcoming sequel to “Twilight” the teenage vampire love story “New Moon” has added a group of Native Americans to the cast.

Hollywood has a long history of placing white actors in roles as other minorities which kind of require us the audience to buy into the fantasy. As a black man who thinks there is an entire stable of black actors that are highly underused and underrated I have never understood this practice.

In the movie the new cast members Chaske Spencer, Bronson Pelletier, Alex Meraz, Kiowa Gordon and Tyson Houseman along with Taylor Lautner from the first movie play the wolf pack, part of the tribe of Native Americans that lives in Forks, Washington. While the werewolf aspect of the story is only hinted at in the first story, it takes center stage in the second with the wolf pack siding with humans against a group of evil vampires.

I applaud Summit Entertainment for their choice and I for me personally this might be a deciding factor in me actually going to see the movie and not just reading about it online.