Marvel actor Peter Shinkoda has claimed an executive at the franchise said the back story to his character in Daredevil was cut as ‘no one cares about Asians’.

Shinkoda played Nobu on the show, which was cancelled in 2018, and said Jeph Loeb told the writers in 2015 to cut the storyline of how his character ended up in America.

Speaking at a virtual #SaveDaredevil roundtable discussion, he said: "I'm kind of reluctant to say this, but... I'm going to take this moment.

“Jeph Loeb told the writers' room not to write for Nobu and Gao - and this was reiterated many times by many of the writers and show runners - that nobody cares about Chinese people and Asian people.”

Nobu was a character involved in The Hand, a supervillain organisation, and was helping fellow villain Madame Gao but neither character’s back story was told.

Shinkoda said Loeb pointed to Marvel’s Blade series, where hundreds of Asian characters are killed by the main character and have no back story, as an example.

"The writers told me they regret it and they were reluctant to do it because they were stoked about including that in the storyline but they were prevented, so I had to concoct this other storyline and rock that material I was given," he added.

The actor also revealed he and Wai Ching Ho, who played Gao, were not invited to the series two premiere.

He later tweeted: "#WaiChingHo aka #MadameGao and I, aka #Nobu of #Daredevil weren't at the season 2 premiere...because we weren't invited. 

"Wai was insulted...and that p***ed me off A LOT. We found out about the event as it live-streamed. ‘They’ were sorry we were ‘overlooked’. #HellsKitchen"

Shinkoda suggested that the discrimination wouldn’t happen today.

"I think it would be approached a hell of a lot more delicately," he said.

"Because I can see the difference. Two, three, four years difference? Huge."