“Crazy Rich Asians” director Jon M. Chu sees his error in casting brown actors in subservient roles. While promoting his new film “In the Heights,” Chu told Insider that he …
While promoting his new film “In the Heights,” Chu toldthat he should have made the South Asian characters in “Crazy Rich Asians” “more human” and that he “totally gets” the criticism.
The 2018 rom-com hit centers on the relationship between Chinese American professor Rachel Chu and history professor Nick Young . He takes her home to Singapore for the wedding of his best childhood friend , where Rachel comes to learn about Nick’s obscenely wealthy family. As the Young family matriarch, Nick’s grandmother holds numerous, lavish events at her estate that is guarded by top-tier security. And though Indians are the third-largest ethnic group in Singapore, they are only seen as working armed guards. Chu said South Asian actors were at the party as guests, but admitted he didn’t elevate their presence in any way.“That’s a lesson that I did not understand until it happened,” he went on.
“We are one of those unicorn movies so there will be a lot of pressure to not disappoint the fans and to perform really well,” Kwan said. “I can’t wait till there are so many more movies like this that the pressure will be off us.”
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