'It took one film’s success to show that change was possible.' TheFarewell + HoneyBoy producer Anita Gou unpacks the importance of Asian-American narratives in film, television, and pop culture — particularly as we face a global pandemic:
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THE JOY LUCK CLUB, Kieu Chinh, Ming-Na Wen, Tamlyn Tomita, Tsai Chin, France Nuyen, Lauren Tom, Lisa Lu, Rosalind Chao, 1993, it felt like someone had held a mirror up to my face for the first time since I began producing in Hollywood. While we were making it, we all felt like we were conducting an experiment that few had tried in recent memory.
At the same time, we all knew that had our movies failed, our efforts could have very well been pushed back to square one. Minorities have always faced the unfair burden of absolute success, because failure meant our whole community was unworthy of opportunity at all. For the longest time, the decision makers in Hollywood have chosen to whitewash or erase any existence of minorities on screen rather than to actually represent the diverse reality of American society.
To not fight for our stories to be memorialized is to allow our existence to be rendered invisible. It’s time for our community to seize the power to define ourselves instead of allowing others to reduce us to false stereotypes.our communities are. But if we have to find a way to describe the fundamental Asian-American experience, it might be in the uncompromising, entrepreneurial spirit of our ancestors.
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