“I had not seen Asian faces in American horror, and it kind of tickled me to want to change that visual vocabulary a bit,” Cho said in an interview with Entertainment Weekly published this week. In the last two years, there have been extremely few Asian actors starring in major American horror flicks or horror-themed TV shows ― “Riverdale’s” Ross Butler aside. Responding to the controversy of Asian roles being rewritten for white actors, Yu recast some of the industry’s biggest blockbusters with Cho as the leading star. “I’m tired of hearing that a role can’t be played by an Asian actor because people just don’t see it. #StarringJohnCho is here to literally show you,” Yu told NBC News in 2016.

Source: Huffington Post September 22, 2017 02:00 UTC