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Whitewashing in "Bitten"

The first book of Kelley Armstrong's Women of the Otherworld series ws optioned to become a TV show last year, and production just started yesterday. In the books, the character of Jeremy is described as dark-haired with "tilted eyes." In another book in the series, it's revealed that his mother (who he was taken away from as a baby) is Japanese.

This is Greg Bryk, the actor playing Jeremy in the show.



This is the press release with the casting announcement.
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