John Cho of Harold and Kumar Speaks
Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle is one of the recent bigger hits starring Asian Americans Kal Penn and John Cho. This movie is actually quite entertaining and although it does show some stereotypes, it also dispels others. And, well, it’s a funny movie which I highly recommend if you haven’t seen it.
The sequel named Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay is coming out on April 25th. Recently, John Cho sat down for an interview during the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival. There were a few good insights on his views.
For one, he does believe Asians are getting much more exposure than before, but we still have a long way to go. He also talks about his upcoming role as Sulu and the fact that he’s a Korean American portraying a Japanese character and why he is comfortable with that. Most interesting is that his comment that it seems that as Asian Americans, we are being portrayed more and also being represented to and sold to in commercials. And the comment is that if they are selling to us, they smell money and that’s a good thing. Ahh, Hollywood. Economics drives everything, huh?
Here is the interview: http://news.ncmonline.com/news/view_article.html?article_id=946b59c59a69db749cb781e0d6a6f9b6
Here is the trailer for the upcoming movie:
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