after actor ed skrein dropped out of hellboy reboot following public outcry against whitewashing in hollywood chloe bennet has revealed that she had to change her name because hollywood is racist the 25yearold took to instagram to praise the english actor for stepping down from the project as it was important to honour ethnic minority stories and voices in arts when he he himself comes from a mixed heritage family read alsoskrein was roped in to play major ben daimiom which was an asian character in the hellboy graphic novels when one of the followers asked bennet why she had changed her name from chloe wang the agents of shield actor said people would not give her a job as her name would make them uncomfortable changing my last name doesnt change the fact that my blood is halfchinese that i lived in china speak mandarin or that i was culturally raised both american and chinese it means i had to pay my rent and hollywood is racist and wouldnt cast me with a last name that made them uncomfortable im doing everything i can with the platform i have to make sure no one has to change their name again just so they can get work bennet wrote earlier the actor had posted a note thanking skrein for standing up against hollywoods continuous insensitivity and flippant behaviour towards the asianamerican community there is no way this decision came lightly on your part so thank you for your bravery and genuinely impactful step forward she wrote