Ryan Murphy imagines what could have happened if Anna May Wong won an Oscar
Laughing off Ainsley's suggestion that she could star in his next film, she tells the young hopeful off: "They don’t want a leading lady who looks like me."
"You need proof? My entire career. Oversexed, opium-addled courtesans, dangerously exotic Far Eastern temptresses — that’s what they wanted to see from someone who looks like me," she says.was just awful," before the show flashes back to Wong’s powerful screen test for the film, an adaptation of Pearl S. Buck’s novel of the same name.
The scene flashes ahead to the Academy Awards, where Wong watches tearfully from a balcony as Rainer accepts the Best Actress statuette instead of her — even though studio executives agreed she'd nailed the performance and would have been the best actress for the job.Donaldson Collection/Getty The scenes depicted on the show showcase the heartbreaking reality that Wong, and many others in Hollywood, faced with white-washing and racial discrimination., having successfully made the transition from silent films to talkies and landing roles in films such asBut the majority of her parts did harp on racist Asian stereotypes, which Wong resented but dealt with in order to keep working.
He added, "To be able to see somebody who looked like them being called the best ... how many windows of opportunity and doors that would have opened for so many people."
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