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 Why Arden Cho Probably Won’t be Mulan

Just as soon as news broke that Disney is planning a live-action remake of Mulan, Teen Wolf fans started clamoring for Arden Cho to play the titular character.

The actor says it would be her dream role, “I just hope I'm in the mix!” she exclaimed via Instagram. “Would be fun to audition, singing + swords = dream come true! Probably the only Disney princess I could ever play, just sayin’.”

That last bit references her race. Cho has often lamented the lack of quality roles available to actors of Asian descent. Hollywood is getting better about casting and creating good roles for minority actors on TV and in film but it may well be this renewed cinematic sensitivity to race that keeps Cho out of her dream job.

There is no doubt that Cho is perfect for the part. She’s the right age, sings like an angel, and has weapons training from Teen Wolf. If she can ride a horse too then Disney would be stupid to overlook her.

The only thing to give the executives at Disney pause about Cho is the criticism they could get for casting a Korean-American actor to play a Chinese character.

You may or may not remember the hubbub over Teen Wolf’s casting of Felisha Terrell as a character many thought would be East Indian (Kali). The abuse heaped on Executive Producer Jeff Davis was so severe that he deleted his twitter account. The argument from fans then - and you can see how it could flare up again in the case of Mulan - was that “actors of color are not interchangeable.”

Adding to the pressure to cast racially accurate actors in Mulan is the fact that China is one of the largest markets for American films outside the US. A big name Chinese actor might simply make more financial sense for Disney.

The Mulan live-action film is still in the initial stages. Disney has a script and producers in place but there is no established timeline for casting.

 Cody Saintgnue gets Serious

Teen Wolf actor Cody Saintgnue (Brett) is pushing for exposure and support for Coalition Duchenne. CD is an organization set up to fund research and find a cure for Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

The illness attacks male children during the first 2 years of life and severely weakens their muscles including the heart and lungs. The disease is progressive; damage accumulates over time and leads to death. In rare cases Duchenne sufferers can live into their 30s but many die much earlier.

Saintgnue recently spent the day with 22-year-old Dusty Brandom who became the face of Duchenne through the documentary Dusty’s Trail: Summit of Borneo. Saintgnue says the closest he’s ever come to dealing with this type of illness is playing the part of a boy with Muscular Dystrophy on the FOX television series House in 2010. He says Dusty’s story should be an inspiration to anyone who thinks they can’t accomplish their life goals.

Watch the entire interview with Cody Saintgnue on YouTube.  Teen Wolf Casts Texas Teen as New Creature

Teen Wolf found its Sluagh this week. According to teenwolfnews.com, they cast 16-year-old Texan Michael Lynch to play the fan-designed creature in an episode of Season 5 of the MTV series Brooklyn-based artist Jessica Short designed the Sluagh (pronounced sloo-ah), a creature of Irish and Scottish myth that eats the souls of innocents and sometimes places parts of its rotten soul into the bodies of its sleeping victims.

Mike spent 2 days on set this week. They did prep work for the shoot on day one and spent the next day actually filming as the Sluagh. Mike got the part through the Make-A-Wish foundation. His wish was to be an extra on Teen Wolf. Instead, because the timing was just right, he will become a lasting part of the Teen Wolf Universe as the very first Sluagh to appear on screen.Our source on set during the shoot says Jessica’s design and Mike’s performance combined to make the creature “terrifying."

You can see more pictures of Mike's Teen Wolf Adventure on his newly established twitter page.  Return to Eichen House

The Sluagh scenes coincided with the Teen Wolf crew’s return to the Mary Andrews Clark Memorial Home near downtown Los Angeles. The building serves as the exterior of Eichen House in the Teen Wolf Universe.



If you watch the ABC/MARVEL shows Agent Carter and Agents of Shield, you’ve seen the Clark House quite a bit during the past few months. It served as Peggy Carter’s apartment building (redubbed the Griffith Hotel). Only a few scenes were actually filmed on location at the house. The rest were set pieces made to look like real building.

In Agents of Shield, the building is used a couple of times as different locations. Again, most of its appearances were set pieces made to look like the Clark Memorial Home.

Teen Wolf does the same thing. Shots of the outside of the building and the ornate lobby are done at the real house. The sets for the individual patient rooms and the supernatural jail housed inside Eichen are built at Teen Wolf HQ in Northridge. While it’s still not clear exactly how they plan to use the Sluagh in Season 5, the return to Eichen House suggests it is connected to the Eichen House lockup. When we were there last, Peter Hale was just getting to know his roommate, the enigmatic, three-eyed Valack.