Hollywood’s Asian stars welcome ‘long overdue’ breakthrough at Oscars

From Oscars favorites “Everything Everywhere All at Once” and “RRR” to an unprecedented four acting nominations, Asian representation in Hollywood has finally achieved a remarkable and overdue breakthrough this year, industry insiders say. | AFP

Behind the camera, best picture frontrunner “Everything Everywhere…”—a $100-million box office hit with 11 Oscar nominations—has an Asian co-director, Daniel Kwan, and an Asian producer, Jonathan Wang.

At the recent Screen Actors Guild awards, James Hong, the 94-year-old veteran who appears in “Everything Everywhere…,” reflected on how white actors with “their eyes taped up” once played leading Asian roles because producers thought “the Asians are not good enough and they are not box office.”Back in 1965, Hong co-founded the East West Players, a Los Angeles theater group created to boost the visibility of Asian American actors and issues.

Vietnam-born Quan, a major child star in the 1980s with “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” and “The Goonies,” all but abandoned acting for decades due to a lack of roles. “We’ve been seeing the same tired old stories about… this white guy action hero, going ‘I’m going to fix this with a gun.'”‘Pull the ladder’Just 23 Asian actors’ performances have ever been nominated, representing a mere 1.2 percent of all nominations, according to a New York Times study.

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