Yes, they came as refugees, but on ‘Queen Sugar’ this family from Vietnam gets to be so much more July 25, 2018 “The fact that the director allowed me to breathe and thought me worthy to take up space, it’s such a simple, subtle thing, but it was startling to me,”...
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2018 Stories for NBC News Asian America and Center of Asian American Media
To play an Asian-American cowboy, actor Yoshi Sudarso needed to go to Indonesia (NBC News) “Westerns are such a big part of American culture. But as Asian Americans, we never see ourselves in them.” Ricky He is love interest in new Disney musical remake of...
More stories for Public Radio International’s Global Nation and The World
How 'bad guy' roles have evolved for people of color As calls for a more diverse Hollywood grows, actors of color are getting opportunities to play more iconic "bad guy" roles. A mash-up of Asian harvest holidays gets the hip-hop treatment For these comedy rappers and...
Saturday School Season 3: Asian American Music Movies
Finished our third season of Saturday School, check it out here! @wakeupsatschool, https://podcastpotluck.com/saturday-school [soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/playlists/356676425"...
Bangarang (Rufio origin story) for The Washington Post!
Remember Rufio in ‘Hook’? The actor is trying to keep his cult character’s legacy alive. By Ada Tseng (June 28, 2017) His red triple-mohawk. His dark eyeliner. His showing midriff. His shiny black fringed leather jacket, necklaces made of bones and skulls, one long...
Round-up of recent work for PRI’s The World and Global Nation
With 'The Great Wall,' is China buying its way into Hollywood? For all the controversy around the casting of Matt Damon in a “white savior” role in a story set in ancient China, director Zhang Yimou plainly acknowledges that Damon’s involvement was a Chinese strategy...