NEW YORK, NY – AUGUST 15: (L-R) Awkwafina, Jimmy O. Yang, Constance Wu, Kevin Kwan, Henry Golding, Ken Jeong and Michelle Yeoh attend SiriusXM’s Entertainment Weekly Radio Spotlight With The Cast Of ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ on August 15, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images for SiriusXM)
Our session with the guys closes talking about the non-Chinese in Crazy Rich Asians before touching on the complexity of stereotypes in media and why a person should not think a certain type of name should match a certain type of face. All parts to the Crazy Rich Asians podcast are here.
Footnotes & Followups
Kris Aquino
Nico Santos
Heart Evangelista
MAMM – Mighty Asian Movie Making Marathon
VAFF – Vancouver Asian Film Festival
VIFF – Vancouver International Film Festival
Youth Collaborative for Chinatown – Hot & Noisy Mahjong Social
Music courtesy of PODSUMMIT. Thank you for your existence!
Gavin Hee is an occasional contributor to Ricepaper. He aims to connect people throughout the world interested in relatable, meaningful content by Asians. He was born and raised in North Vancouver and spent his formative twenties in Seoul. He is particularly fond of pan-Asian themed stories of inter-cultural exchange. He encourages marginalized voices to build their own world so they are not stuck in someone else’s. Click on his name in the tags below to see all posts.