Hollywood’s Asian Problem

"Crazy Rich Asians" is a landmark movie for one very big reason - it’s the first all-Asian Hollywood film in 25 years. The hope is that similar to "Black Panther," the success of "Crazy Rich Asians" at the box office would pave the way for more opportunities for Asian actors in Hollywood.
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[@DinoMan_6]

...if I had the opportunity....I’d audition to be an asian jedi

[@peculiarcharlotte]

same

[@ilaanaweerasinghe7642]

Where are the SOUTH Asians?! We're nowhere! Absolutely nowhere!

[@ionasmith1998]

I was thinking this

[@MartialArtsGamer]

South Asian actors have much better opportunities in the UK than their American counterparts. As sad as it may be but that’s the way it is.

[@joynatanael554]

what do u mean south asian? what are the countries considered as south asia >??

[@k3qever413]

Southeast Asians too

[@devydu]

Musical-romance-comedy “Flower Drum Song” came out in 1961 with awesome singing, dancing, love stories, Chinese immigrants, Chinese-American younger generation and elders. This movie starred Asian cast of Nancy Kwan, James Shigeta, Miyoshi Umeki, Jack Soo, Reiko Sato, Victor Sen Yung, Benson Fong, Kam Tong and James Hong. It also starred Juanita Hall, an African-American, who played Asian character roles. This film was adapted from 1958 Broadway musical and based on a book by C.Y. Lee. Some may say the movie/musical had stereotypes and offensive, but it depicted Chinese family life and romance, set in San Francisco Chinatown. Like “Crazy Rich Asians”, it has love, culture, comedy, but also beautiful singing of Rodgers & Hammerstein songs and incredible dancing. Talented Nancy Kwan is Eurasian, but so is Gemma Chan (Astrid) who is Chinese/Scottish and Henry Golding (Nick) who is Malaysian/British. In Flower Drum Song, leading Asian man was handsome James Shigeta, who was torn between two love interests, plus his Chinese heritage and American culture. As little girl watching “Flower Drum Song” on TV in ‘60’s and living in SF, I identified with this wonderful Asian musical, which was revised on Broadway again few years ago. So with “Flower Drum Song”, Asians were represented 60 years ago on Broadway stage and in the movie musical. Check out this Asian musical classic "FDS".

[@devydu]

@Miller Time True, but Nancy Kwan is still with us. Wouldn’t you agree when movie “Flower Drum Song” was made in 1961, they at least used talented Asian actors/actresses, instead of white actors pretending to be Asian, as in earlier “Charlie Chan” and “Good Earth” movies? As kid, I loved how my identity & culture was represented in Flower Drum Song, World of Suzy Wong, Joy Luck Club and later with Crazy Rich Asians, although I do not identify with being crazy rich. But fun movie to watch just the same.

[@devydu]

@Miller Time Wow, just because a movie or musical is old, a young person should not see it? It's film history and one can learn much on how the world was viewed at that time. There are many classic musicals, especially Rodgers & Hammerstein, which are still performed today on Broadway, community theaters and high school theaters. "Flower Drum Song" was again performed on Broadway in 2002. "King and I," "South Pacific" and "Miss Saigon" has Asian characters and still continue to run in live theaters. Doesn't make sense for you to say a musical is so old, it should not have been made. Would you say the same for famous opera "Madame Butterfly"? "Crazy Rich Asians" will also become old in a few decades. Would you say the same about this movie in the future? "Flower Drum Song" has love story, Chinese culture, song, dance, life in SF Chinatown - it's a rom-com musical based on a book by C.Y. Lee. As a Chinese kid living in SF, I loved and identified with this lovely musical and proud it starred so many famous Asian actors of that time.

[@luvella9795]

Someone really wanted to argue with me that black people have less representation than Asian people. Asian people are always casted away because we are the most quiet and make up the smallest percentage in the U.S.

[@pinheadlarry4538]

Latinos even more and we’re the largest minority group

[@Hillary_Official_1]

I am actually a Chinese Canadian 🇨🇳🇨🇦 girl and I would like to watch Crazy Rich Asians

[@musicloversonly]

So if you are talking bout asians, is it all about chinese or east asians? There are lots of half filipino in the hollywood

[@margaritalitchfield741]

a lot of them pass as white though 😔 or they are like a third filipino and you can barely tell they’re filipino and it’s sad bc the only filipino actor i’ve seen is jacob who plays ned in spider-man

[@Gangster_Hampster]

Wtf filipinos are east asians

[@peblo8238]

@@Gangster_Hampster they're southeast asian

[@rodrigoe.gordillo2617]

Half filipino i wonder why...

[@elangbam3115]

We have Kdrama, K-pop and kmovies lol. We don't need Hollywood to represent us

[@tillallareone7299]

Let’s see that will the upcoming ShangQi movie looks like.😂

[@jmnyc2100]

Too bad Bruce Lee passed away way toO early who knows what he could have done for the Asian actors in the US.

[@toasturhztoastbunz896]

2:30 little did you guys know what was to come from that movie....

[@prawnstar502]

Dont cry about not being invited to the party… throw your own party and make it so dope they wont be able to ignore u

[@jhonayo4887]

I don't necessarily mind not a lot of Asians being in movies. My problem is that when they are they are almost always a stereotype or not the main lead. The shortage of Asian actors might just be a natural occurrence in which Asians just don't go for roles but it is odd that they are almost always just a stereotype. And trust me I'm a conservative domican dude in the Army who hates PC stuff. But even I get tired of Asians always being a stereotype/token. Black people at this point have pretty good representation and arnt casted all that much anymore as a stereotype and even take lead roles that are not stereotypical. Sorry for using the word "stereotype" so much can't find a better word for this subject 😆

[@Kelvin_HTTYD]

Our teaching is using this as a teaching material :)

[@YappieKitchen]

Your leading lady is out here in Toronto!

[@johncartledge8149]

Solution: Write a quality screenplay starring Asians and film it. If it's good, I'll give it a waych. If it sucks, Asian or not, I won't waste my time. Not racist, just like good movies. Hint: Avoid the slightest emulation of Black Panther. Arggghhhh!!

[@debishvebishwish4839]

White people are allowed to make shitty movies but Asians are not given a chance to make any at all.

[@deek4515]

I hate that Dolph Lundgren was painted as such a hated Asian actor when he played the Russian villain in Rocky IV.

[@sangjeongkimcho293]

0:40 THE GANGSTERS LOL WTF!

[@akpstar6331]

Its like asking why chinese or korean film industry dont have more european or middle eastern black actors and actress.

[@potatogirl1340]

AKP Star yea but China and Korea are like 99.99% Chinese/Korean. America isn’t all white, it’s diverse...

[@potatogirl1340]

AKP Star you’re forgetting asian Americans exist...they’re Americans but people like you view asian Americans as foreigners

[@mrlassotool]

@@potatogirl1340 China is not a race dumb dumb. India and china are historically diverse nation. Just google it.

[@buzzcat7258]

US industry is supposed to be diverse

[@buzzcat7258]

US is not a white country and it never was

[@keonggondang989]

its asiah here mean china, korea and japan?

[@jacquelynsaenz2111]

I don't need to watch anymore American dramas or Hollywood movies I have two apps that let me see the real people of Asia I have iqiyi and Viki I have those both because I see the real people of Asians not by what you see on the movies nor Hollywood or drama nothing like that I don't need this I don't need this anymore what I love to see most is from stuff from China and there I see the real heart of Asia Asia is a beautiful country anywhere around it's either going to be Japan South Korea China Taiwan Thailand whichever one is beautiful I don't need any more American dramas or Hollywood I'm done with this

[@ShadowOfNexxus]

This is called racial bias

[@101519e]

3 YEARS LATER. SAMO SAMO. ASIAN MEN AND BLACK WOMEN LEADS???????????

[@roshantiwari9699]

That’s true on manager agents of script was shit political Hollywood !

[@adamjames6421]

Crazy rich asian "success" is in NO WAY COMPARIBLE to Black panther. Black panther is top 10 highest grossing movies of all time globally. Black panther was a movement. Why do you people always have to piggyback off black people's fight for equality and representation.

[@thehorsesnamewasfriday8695]

AKP Star lmao say that without crying ;(

[@akpstar6331]

@OLIVIA . (00000014872) Asians have dark skin like african look at mandela who has yellow brownish skin smiliar to asians. You have flat noses and NO HAIR. You are more similar to blacks.How many europeans live in asia compared to millions of asians living in europe america canada australia.

[@youknowwhoiam6057]

A movie verses Marvel. It sounds fair.

[@ice-tgaming4609]

So youre angry beacuse theirs few asian actor on hollywood?

[@oliviafernandes9195]

Well it's kinda unfair

[@ice-tgaming4609]

@@oliviafernandes9195 whats unfair?

[@nikmuhamadizzat9903]

@@ice-tgaming4609 i think they angry cause they potray asian men as nerd while asian girl as sexual object to white men

[@norahroselle]

Yes and it’s harder to be an asian actor because they won’t really pick you, but I hate Hollywood anyways-

[@buzzcat7258]

@@ice-tgaming4609 that asians are usually only represented as side characters, the percentage of asians playing as main characters is low, that's y it's unfair

[@thomasdalby7805]

Waaaaah waaaah no Asians in movies where were one of the smallest minority waaaaah

[@luvella9795]

I thought that way too, but looking drastically different from the majority of the people you see does affect you.

[@RandomPerson-hd9sb]

Are you okay? Mentally?