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Some other POVs, mine and one of an Asian actor

Posted by Analog Scott (A) on December 10, 2005 at 14:55:03

In Reply to: My argument... posted by blah on December 10, 2005 at 11:45:01:

Funny that one would speak of Hollywood as a single entity while complaining about the grouping of Asians. That aside let me relate to you a story of an Asian actor I worked with for seven years. He was of the opinion that Asians as a group have been under represented and often poorly represented in the film and television industry. We had a disagreement over Joel Grey playing an old Asian character in Remo Williams. He felt that it should have been played by an Asian actor. I disagreed on the basis of art for art's sake. The illusion was worth the cost of employment of an Asian actor IMO. I'm not big on the idea of birth rights. So this actor, Garret Wang agrees with the common belief that actors should not be crossing broad racial lines just as you alluded in your example that a white person playing Martin Luther King Jr. would be considered by many to be offensive. OTOH That same actor who is Cantonese, played a Korean on the show we worked on together. Clearly he, an Asian actor, did not see a problem with actors crossing cultural lines. There are more than a few that see your analogy as flawed. A Japanese character played by a Chinese actor is not nearly as universally offensive as actors crossing racial lines in their portrayals. I am of one extreme. I believe in the magic of movies and the fun of creating illusions. I have put a white actor into black makeup on national television. I sleep fine at night. By the way the Black man that was being spoofed by the white actor I put into black makeup thought it was both an amazing illusion and a very funny sketch. I am very sensitive to the plight of minorities and the discrimination they face but as an artist who works in the film an television industry I am not sympathetic to politics of any kind dictating what artists can and cannot do.

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