Set in Hawaii, "Aloha" features Emma Stone as Allison Ng a Chinese-Hawaiian-Swedish Air Force who falls for military contractor Brian Gil played by Bradley Cooper. The romantic comedy-drama is written and directed by Cameron Crowe.
With Stone's strawberry blond hair, alabaster skin freckles and emerald eyes, it is not easy to accept the Oscar-nominated actress, known for her roles in "The Amazing Spider-man 2" and "Birdman," as a bi-racial character, as Entertainment Weekly noted.
According to the publication, "X-Men: Apocalypse" and "Zoolander 2" actress Olivia Munn would be more genetically appropriate to be cast as Allison Ng is the character's Hawaiian pedigree is very critical to the plot of "Aloha." Munn is of Chinese-English-Irish-German decent.
In "Aloha," when Allison Ng is not trying to save Hawaii from a crawling military-industrial complex, her half-Hawaiian-half-Chinese father, is a Hula dancing expert with a practical knowledge of Hawaiian folk guitar, eulogizes about the islander spiritual energy called mana.
Originally titled "Deep Tiki," "Aloha" also stars Rachel McAdams, Alec Baldwin, Bill Murray, John Krasinski, Danny McBride, Bill Camp, Jaeden Lieberher, Danielle Rose Russell, Michael Chernus, Edi Gathegi, Dennis Bumpy Kanahele, Fahim Fazli, Kaui Kauhi and R. Kunani Nihipali, among others.
With the questionable decision to cast Stone to play an Asian American character, "Aloha" is declared by Variety as the worst film yet by Crowe, who himself is bi-racial.
Before "Aloha," Stone appeared in Woody Allen's "Irrational Man," which was featured in the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. She is also set to star in the 2016 film "La La Land" and in the 2017 film "The Croods 2."