Hollywood’s villains were once Russian or Chinese. Now they’re people from the Balkans

Brad Pitt and George Clooney's new bro-flick 'Wolfs' is entirely forgettable but for one thing — it displays, yet again, Hollywood prejudice against those considered not white enough
Hollywood’s villains were once Russian or Chinese. Now they’re people from the Balkans

Brad Pitt and George Clooney in Apple TV's 'Wolfs'.

I recently watched the new bro-flick Wolfs. In my defence: I was sick and therefore lacking in imagination. 

I didn’t fall for the Brad Pitt-George Clooney combo, though, doing proper bro stuff — walking around in leather jackets, driving cars (fast), cracking egomaniac quasi-ironic jokes. If it wasn’t for the portrayals of “Albanians” and “Croatians” and their rival mafias, I might have fallen asleep.

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