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I guess it's because the Oriental trappings of Doctor Strange's origin were considered too important to the character to ditch, but for some reason they were adverse to casting an actual Asian actor.

Is it weird that the The Shadow movie from 1994 did a better job with casting? They at least had Asian actors Brady Tsurutani (even if he is Japanese instead of Tibetan) and John Lone (even if he's Chinese instead of Mongolian) portray the Tulku and Shiwan Khan respectively. TBF, they also had Tim Curry playing an American.

Now that I think about it, it's also a bit weird that a 1994 movie based on a 1930's pulp fiction series had more named major Asian characters portrayed by Asian actors than the entire series run of Firefly and Serenity despite that series being set in a verse that's half Chinese.