Matt Damon addresses the whitewashing controversy surrounding his new movie 'The Great Wall'

Matt Damon has heard about the claims of "whitewashing" thrown at his new movie "The Great Wall" and he has some thoughts.

While at the New York Comic Con with the movie on Saturday, Damon was asked about the controversy that bubbled online after the movie's first teaser went up in late July. 

"Yeah, it was a f---ing bummer," Damon said, according to ComingSoon.net.

In the movie, directed by visionary Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou ("House of Flying Daggers," "Hero"), Damon plays a British solider who helps fight monsters attacking China's Great Wall (the movie opens in theaters February 2017).

Damon feels the movie has being unfairly criticized since no one has even seen it yet. He explains the numerous things that the movie had to get across in a teaser:

Damon insisted that he's sensitive to criticisms of whitewashing, but he thinks once the movie is actually out, people will change their minds:

Here's the teaser that's causing all the controversy:

 

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