Six years later, inequality is still very much a problem in Hollywood-and it’s also, indirectly, highlighted an issue in my profession. The hashtag #StarringJohnCho, accompanied by the actor’s face photoshopped over movie posters and stills, became an anthem. For years, he was one of just a few American actors of East Asian descent who was a household name-so ubiquitous that, in 2016, it was his name writer and creative strategist William Yu chose when he created a social movement geared toward pointing out Hollywood’s history of whitewashing and other issues. It’s a jarring confession, since Cho radiates confidence and charisma onscreen. I’ve always thought if I could get my hands on some good words, maybe I’ll get good as an actor.” “It took me longer to develop acting skills,” says Cho, “because you spend a lot more time with inferior words.” Beginners are often stuck with one-line, glorified extra parts, “you know, ‘there you go, sir’ ‘soup or salad?’ I spent many years in the ‘soup or salad?’ phase. It’s a poisonous problem for young actors. It still exists-that standard for what an Asian has to look like, particularly for men.” But Hasan’s observation, I would agree with. ![]() “Absolutely, we’ve made progress from there. “Sometimes when I work with a younger Asian actor, it’s difficult for them to even comprehend…that the majority of the parts that were available to Asian actors existed to make fun of Asians or to denigrate them,” he says. ![]() But that’s mostly thanks to the mustache-goatee combo he grew for the second season of Apple TV+’s murder-mystery comedy, The Afterparty-a look he says his family doesn’t support, because it’s like “they're living with a villain.” (This, Cho stresses, doesn’t necessarily mean that he is the series’ new killer.) (When he was a kid, he learned about the mark of Cain he thought it was cool that he had one too, making him “one of the bad people.”)Īt the moment, Cho does have an air of danger about him. Others know him by the distinctive mole on his forehead that’s just off center. Cho’s shock of black hair, which was looking extra fluffy and tousled on the day of our call, has been its own trending topic online, and people definitely noticed when he got ripped to play Spike Spiegel in Netflix’s live-action take on the Cowboy Bebop anime series. The issue, Minhaj said, is that there are more parts available to someone who looks like Shepard.Ĭho hadn’t seen the video when we talked, but he understands Minhaj’s sentiments. Cho’s character, Max Park, wasn’t written specifically for an Asian or Asian American actor Marks recently told The Hollywood Reporter that “originally, the characters were Caucasian…but I was such a John Cho fan that it just felt like, let’s change it.”Ī few years ago, a Vanity Fair video interview with Hasan Minhaj went viral because Minhaj said he thought he was more attractive than the white actor Dax Shepard. He forces his kid to go on a road trip, a covert op to track down the mother who abandoned them. The movie, directed by Hannah Marks and costarring Mia Isaac as Cho’s daughter, Wally, is a melodrama about a father who learns he has terminal cancer. drama that premieres July 15 on Prime Video. The guy who costarred with Kal Penn in the canonical stoner Harold & Kumar comedies who helped normalize queer Asian relationships through his role as Sulu in the recent Star Trek movies who gave audiences a glimpse of a regular, suburban Korean American family in Searching and who infiltrated the traditionally white raunchy teen-flick market by teaching the world the acronym “MILF”-Mom I’d Like to Fuck-in American Pie, is now playing a boring-but-attractive single dad in Don’t Make Me Go, a Y.A. Perhaps John Cho was always destined to be a DILF.
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