BirdsOfPrey breakout Ella Jay Basco carries torch for new generation of Asian American representation
and is the DP in the aforementioned“I feel like I wouldn’t know as much as I do now about the industry because I have resources like my dad, my uncles and my mom…and I feel like I wouldn’t even enjoy or understand it if I didn’t have a connection with anybody else close to me that understands the industry,” she said. She also admits that she enters the industry with an advantage because she sees it from a different perspective and with so many family members who also serve as role models.
In addition to her family, Basco looks to other actors who launched their careers at a young age and navigated the Hollywood landscape to later become major players in the industry. She cites Natalie Portman, Jodi Foster and Leonardo DiCaprio as influences. Outside of her immediate family, she sees Asian actresses like Sandra Oh and Awkwafina as role models.in 1999. An Asian American trained from birth to be an assassin, she stepped into the Bat-family as Batgirl.
Basco admits that it was hard to be humble because of how big of a role this was, but ultimately she stayed grounded in a her first major feature role that would not only be her big break, but would be an opportunity to be one of the faces of the next generation of Asian American representation in Hollywood. With that, she points out, “I definitely feel a little more refreshed to see people who look like me more represented in the community.
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