“ People ask ’ So, how are the roles now? You must be getting so many.’ And it’s like, I don’t know if you know, but I’m Asian still. It’s not a complaint, that’s just how it is now, and I have to forge my own path through it and see that through. I think that if I had not been Asian, I probably would have a whole plethora of roles, at least to audition for, but it’s just not what has been written.” - Steven Yeun
When all else fails, gotta roll up your sleeves and do it, to it.
Source: http://www.projectcasting.com/news/walking-dead-actor-struggling-to-find-other-roles/
important
Especially so because ScaJo is playing an Asian woman in a movie based on an anime made by Asians in a world that’s set closely resembling Tokyo.
Especially so because Akira, a movie inspired by Japanese trauma toward being Nuclear Bombed by America was going to be set in America, with the Japanese as the bad guys, directed and casted by a guy who doesn’t respect the source material.
Asian actors trying to get more representation and respect is important because white people won’t give it to us.