I got sort of sick of seeing Asians being the blank, bland real estate agent or something. I didn’t care. It didn’t mean anything to me.
There are old-money Asians that would never be caught dead with a Chanel handbag or sporting anything that has a label it.
‘Crazy Rich Asians’ may be fiction, but given the situation I grew up in, I’ve had an unparalleled view into the very real world it depicts.
Even more troubling, not only are Asians largely unseen at the front line of the immigration debate, they are not using the resources available to help them manage their undocumented status.
I was so fortunate to play my club cricket at Moseley Ashfield. We had loads of Asians, white players, black players. You grow up from that knowing it just doesn’t matter what religion or culture people are into, everyone is different.
I think that it’d be nice for other Asians to support other Asian artists and help each other instead of pull each other down.
I guess I can be stereotypical and say that Asians are very cheap.
A lot of Asians and Asian-Americans have liver problems. If you basically ask anybody who is Asian, they or one of their relatives will have some sort of a liver issue, and the liver actually falls into the jurisdiction of the gastroenterologist.
Our country’s history is a generation-spanning journey to effectuate the notion that ‘all men are created equal’ for the members of our ever-expanding national family: women, African-Americans, Latinos, Asians, Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, gays and lesbians, the disabled, immigrants, and refugees.
‘Crazy Rich Asians’ and ‘A Simple Favor’ were each a master class in filmmaking, and I had so much fun working with all my costars.
I’m not sure if being Chinese really helped, but I do think that if a non-Asian had written a book called ‘Crazy Rich Asians,’ they might not have been looked upon so kindly.
Quite honestly, I never thought it would be possible for Asians to make it in the States. But now I feel like it’s totally changing. You see so many Asian celebrities now, and more and more of them are taking bigger roles in movies. I feel like everything has changed.
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