Oscar-winning film-maker says he is entirely to blame following accusations of ‘whitewashing’ and promises to heed calls for diversity in future Cameron Crowe has apologised for casting the white actor Emma Stone as a “part-Asian” Hawaiian in controversial “whitewashed” romance Aloha.Crowe addressed the issue on his blog after diversity campaigners took him to task for allegedly failing to recognise that Asian-Pacific Islanders make up the majority of the state’s population.