Finn Jones, the white lead of Iron Fist, has responded to criticisms regarding his casting, dismissing them as 'internet outrage'.

Many had called for Netflix and Marvel to cast an Asian-American actor in the role of Danny Rand, to avoid the problematic and offensive "white saviour" narrative of the comics and to raise visibility of Asian-Americans. But this was ignored.

The controversy shows no signs of subsiding (take a look at the reviews), and Jones is unhappy with the furore, claiming that people need to "chill the f**k out".

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"There's so much outrage in the internet these days, right?" he told Vulture. "Why don't people just... look, the issue is that people are judging before they've even seen the show.

"C'mon. Don't get angry and start a mob when you don't even - you haven't even seen the show! You don't even know what we're doing with it. It's unjust. It's unfair.

"There needs to be more diversity in film and television, in all f**king aspects of life. There needs to be more diversity, period.

"Unfortunately, this show was picked on, for whatever reason. I don't fully understand, really, but what I say is, watch the show."

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Jones reckons that any controversy surrounding the show's casting or its portrayal of Asian and Asian-American culture will be "muted straight away" as soon as Iron Fist is released.

"The story we're telling - people are going to be surprised at how we are going to handle this," he said. "To be honest, this is one of the most diverse shows I've ever worked on. It's got an amazing cast from all different backgrounds, playing all different types of roles.

"I think as soon as the show comes out, all of that conversation will be completely muted, straight away."

There's a snag with that, though. Numerous critics - who have seen the first six episodes of the season - have torn the Netflix series apart for getting the racial elements all wrong. So there's that.

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"It's like, whatever," Jones said. "I get the frustration. There is a frustration in the world right now, and I support that frustration completely.

"But what I don't support is having frustration on something when you've not even seen the product yet. It's blind rage. It's really harmful. People need to chill the f**k out before they actually - they need to think about what they're doing."

Despite the Vulture interviewer attempting to move on from the subject, Jones couldn't resist having one more go at the people sharing their legitimate concerns about the show - brushing the issue off as not one of the "real problems in the world".

"C'mon," he said. "Let's get angry at the real f**king injustices in the world, yeah? The real problems in the world.

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"Not just in television. There's some real shit happening in the world right now that people need to get angry about.

"Let's get angry about that. Not just a TV show that hasn't even aired yet, you know?"

Note to Jones: just because the issue isn't as important to you doesn't mean it's not important to other people.

Iron Fist launches Friday, March 17 on Netflix.

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