by Nathaniel R
Major Ben Daimio. The part will no longer be played by Ed Skrein
Well here's a delightful righteous first. The British actor Ed Skrein, whose best known to date for being the big bad of the first Deadpool movie, has taken a stand against the frequent white-washing of Asian characters on film. He has dropped out of the Hellboy reboot having learned (via the instant online backlash) that the role in the comics is a Japanese-American man. He wrote a heartfelt public letter about the decision...
As Angry Asian Man points out this will make it harder for future projects to whitewash because the backlash against this favorite Hollywood shell-game has gained even more visibility now. To have an actual actor willing to give up a role to stand in solidarity against the ugly practice will also make it very hard for future actors to say yes without looking disrespectful even if executives still want to go that route.
In tribute to a guy doing the right thing at the expense of an actual job in a potential hit, let's gawk at the outer beauty after this inner beauty reveal and end with some replacement suggestions for his now vacant role...
a brief stint on Game of Thrones which he also left early
Whew.
Okay, now that that's out of the way. Let's talk replacement actors. Actors of Japanese descent.
A bit about the character from the official wiki
Benjamin Daimio was a member of the B.P.R.D. A former U.S. Marine who returned from the dead under mysterious circumstances, Ben joined the bureau in 2004 as a team commander. With years of military experience Ben assisted the Bureau in planning and prosecuting its war against the supernatural threats it faces, all the while dealing with his own demons and the events surrounding his rebirth.
Skrein is 34 years old and the character shouldn't be younger than that given the years of military experience and death and rebirth. So... we're only looking at thirty or fortysomething actors for these suggestions.
How about auditioning these working actors all in their 30s or 40s?
IAN ANTHONY DALE (Hawaii Five O) 
Taiwanese superstar TAKESHI KANESHIRO is actually half Japanese
SHUN OGURI (Crow Zero, Gintama)
TADANOBU ASANO (Thor, Mongol)And that's mostly off the top of my head. I could come up with many more suggestions if you expand the search into 50somethings there are a ton more. It's not that hard, Hollywood. There are plenty of available actors for any kind of character.