Hollywood Is Like A Battle - 1094 Words

Maggie Quigley, a 29 year old Asian/ White Actress, told Associated Press that competition for roles in Hollywood is like a battle. Even with her roles beside many top tier actors and actresses, she believes that It s a struggle. You got to win roles. You really got to fight for them. When I left Asia and went to the U.S., essentially I was starting over. It s very hard...The first part of it is going into a room (for an audition) and trying to quell this stigma that people have about Asians only doing certain kinds of roles and Asians only being looked at a certain way, Quigley said. You run into these stereotypes a lot. (Lee) Hollywood has made some interesting decisions when it comes to portraying Asians in movies. Indeed,†¦show more content†¦So the one Asian guy in Star Wars disintegrates on an Imperial Starship. Just like how Asians are stereotyped daily on their driving. But it is not just under representation, Hollywood is actually giving away roles to white people that should be for Asians; the term is called â€Å"white-washing†. Apparently there is some belief in Hollywood that Asian leads just will not be understood by American public. For example, the movie 21. The movie is based on a true story about a group of MIT students led by John Chang and focusing on player Jeff Ma. They used card counting to win a fortune in blackjack. Yet Hollywood finds it boring. No one would want to watch two Asians playing blackjack. Why not make the cast almost all white and add sex and drinking? And that is what they literally did. Most members of the team were Asian males, but you wouldn t know that from watching the movie. The author of the nonfiction story that inspired the film, Ben Mezrich, told an audience of MIT students that early on in the moviemaking process,studio executives told him most of the film s actors would be white, with perhaps an Asian female. This is consistent with Hollywood s larger trend. (Scherker) I mean that is crazy! That was a real story based on real people and they just said â€Å"Ah, we do not want to cast Asians. Let us just make them white.† Furthermore like most young Asian kids, I grew up loving anime, especially Dragon