A current example is the movie Bullet Train, where Brad Pitt plays a character originally written as Japanese.

But there are plenty of others, if you search for "whitewashing in movies" you can find lists.

An extensive list found in Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitewashing_in_film#Examples_...

I think it's more common when books are adapted to TV/movies, so it's not as obvious as when they change historical characters or characters from other or older visual media. Often they change the location to North America/Europe and change the characters "organically" as well.

Anyway, here's the ones I can think of right away:

Ancient One in the Marvel movies to Tilda Swinton, although the comic character is kind of a racist stereotype, and would have issues in China, so they had good arguments for doing that change.

Staying in the comic universe, Bane and Ra's al Ghul in Batman movies.

Related to the first one; Benedict Cumberbatch plays Khan in the new Star Trek.

The Ghost in the Shell reboot with Scarlett Johansson

Everyone hated that afaik.

IMO it wasn’t bad on its own. It was just bad compared to the original which is an all time classic.

Jesus?

What color skin did his father have?