The study is an examination of 1,300 top-grossing films released between 2007 and 2019 and reveals just how much progress Hollywood has yet to make.
. Its examination of 1,300 of the top-grossing films released between 2007 and 2019 reveals just how much progress Hollywood has yet to make, starting with the fact that only 44 of those films had Asian actors, or even Asian costars, driving the plot. What’s more, nearly 40 percent of the films had no2018 saw the number of speaking characters played by API actors hit 9.6 percent. Admittedly a vast improvement compared to 2007’s 3.5, but the rate dropped by 1.2 the following year.
The industry is particularly tough for API women, only six of whom made it into those 44 lead films. But Hollywood has been fruitful for one API actor in particular: , whose mother was Samoan and father was Black Nova Scotian. His IMDB page single handily represents one-third of all API-lead films found in the study.on Twitter in 2019. “Equally proud. Black/Samoan.” He also denied ever being booked as the first Black champion in wrestling, asserting that he “transcended race.”Asian actors will soon appear on the screen.
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