EverythingEverywhere star Stephanie Hsu says, 'there are people who are rooting for roles like this to exist.'
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"She sent me a picture of Lana Condor a year ago and was like, 'You look like this woman,'" Hsu says of her mom."But after the Lana Condor thing happened, we were at a screening in New York, and a bunch of people kept going up to my publicist and [ director duo] the Daniels' publicist, who are both Asian, and they were like, 'Congratulations, your performance is incredible.
She adds, "We have not transcended this moment, right? James Hong [who plays Hsu's grandfather] started acting at a time when people wouldn't even say his name, they would literally just call him 'Chinaman' and say 'Get on your mark.' Michelle [Yeoh] waited almost 40 years for her first chance of being No. 1 on the call sheet, and Ke [Huy Quan] left acting for [nearly] 20 years.
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