Random observation for today: Jeremy and I watched The Scorch Trials the other night and it reminded me of when we watched The Maze Runner last year and I kept noticing how the cast (stars and extras) were peppered with diverse characters who weren't (necessarily) stereotypes of their race. This may have started with the book, which gave names like Min-Ho or Jorge to certain characters, but the movies seem to have made a point of not reverting to the white-male-as-default casting trap.
And by making a point of it, they totally didn't. It wasn't like they were trotting out an in-your-face parade of diversity all the time. It was just that the characters were of all colors and shapes and sizes, no biggie. It reminded me so much of this article by Geena Davis, in which she begs Hollywood to do something as simple as make half of the background crowd in any given scene, women.
Anyway, in The Scorch Trials, I swear there is an extra wearing a hijab in the background of one scene. I never got a clear look at her, but here are the best screengrabs I could manage.
What do you think? Is this our first post-apocalyptic muhajjiba? Jeremy thinks it's just a girl wearing a scarf because it's cold, and he might be right. But to me, the draping on the scarf seems just so, and it would also fit in well with the other casting efforts of this movie.
