EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce legend and Critics Choice Icon Award recipient James Hong looks back on his over 700 roles and how Asian representation has changed: 'When I was a kid, 'The Good Earth' was played by Caucasian leads that taped their eyes up'
, the early one with David Carradine, I played probably eight different characters, and then in the sequel [], I played another one. One day I stepped on the set to visit David, and the makeup quickly came up to me and touched up my skin and hair. I said, “Gee, I’m just visiting!”I have to know who’s in it and that it’s not slandering any minority groups. That’s the most important thing: that there are good people behind it, whether it’s the stars or producers or directors. Look at.
I came out here in the summer of 1953 with my comedy partner, Don Parker — Hong and Parker, we called ourselves — and we were going to hit it big. We didn’t get any gigs. They didn’t know what an Asian and a half-Indian in a comedy show did. That was the problem in those days. They said “Get out,” in so many words. Now I look at the list of honorees for this celebration, and I’m flabbergasted. The innovators, the creators — like Daniel Dae Kim, Janet Yang, Ang Lee — will drive this forward.
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