{"id":19423,"date":"2020-08-24T11:42:33","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T11:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shows4.com\/mobile\/?p=19423"},"modified":"2021-03-08T09:55:08","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T09:55:08","slug":"brooklyn-nine-nine-star-melissa-fumero-blasts-canadian-remakes-whitewashed-casting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/?p=19423","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Brooklyn Nine-Nine\u2019 Star Melissa Fumero Blasts Canadian Remake\u2019s Whitewashed Casting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding: 6px\">\nA French-Canadian remake of the hit cop comedy \u201cBrooklyn Nine-Nine,\u201d titled \u201cEscouade 99\u201d and transplanted to Quebec, has left people baffled. And that includes one of the original stars of the ongoing police procedural sitcom, once at Fox and now living at NBC. Melissa Fumero, who plays rule-abiding sergeant Amy Santiago, took to Twitter to blast the remake\u2019s apparently whitewashed casting, with a non-Latina actress playing the Cuban-American star\u2019s role. Another role, Fumero noted, also went to a non-Latina actress originally played by Stephanie Beatriz. In the new version, which just released a trailer, the characters are now dubbed as Fanny, portrayed by actress Myl\u00e8ne Mackay, and Rosalie, played by Bianca Gervais.<br \/>\n\u201cThis is like peeking through another dimension,\u201d Fumero tweeted this week. \u201cGotta say though after watching this\u2026I\u2019m suddenly curious about the Latina population in Quebec. Just sayin\u2019.\u201d<br \/>\nHowever, Fumero said the show could present an opportunity to its creators to encourage more diversity among the cast members. \u201cIf the show is successful I hope the creators take that opportunity to hire more BIPOC in supporting and guest roles,\u201d she said. \u201cAlso, you guyssssss Amy is not sexy ON PURPOSE. So that bums me out too,\u201d adding her frustrations over the remake\u2019s depiction of her character in the trailer.<br \/>\n\u201cBrooklyn Nine-Nine\u201d has an eighth season coming up, though it\u2019s unclear when production will resume on the show. IndieWire recently interviewed former star Chelsea Peretti, who said that in the next season, the showrunners ought to consider defunding the police.<br \/>\n\u201cEscouade 99\u201d premieres September 17 on the streaming service Club Illico.\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 5px;padding-top: 5px\" align=\"center\"><strong>Related Videos<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_67393\"  width=\"1140\" height=\"641\"  data-origwidth=\"1140\" data-origheight=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o1LgwL1o_6k?enablejsapi=1&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&rel=1&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-timeline\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nbcbrooklyn99?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">Tweets by nbcbrooklyn99<\/a> <\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 5px;padding-top: 5px\" align=\"center\"><strong>Style to wear<\/strong><\/div>\n<div id='sa_invalid_postid'>Slide Anything shortcode error: A valid ID has not been provided<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A French-Canadian remake of the hit cop comedy \u201cBrooklyn Nine-Nine,\u201d titled \u201cEscouade 99\u201d and transplanted to Quebec, has left people&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21505,"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19423\/revisions\/21505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}