Dana Delany (Body of Proof) will join Sylvester Stallone in the new original series Tulsa King for Paramount+.
01.06.2022 - 01:11 / etcanada.com
Daniel Dae Kim is taking a look at Asian representation onscreen in Hollywood with his family and one fan-favourite series keeps coming up short.
As part of teaching his children about Asian-American and Pacific Islander representation, Kim and his wife have made it a habit to point out Asians in the cast of Hollywood TV shows and blockbuster movies.
“When my kids are watching shows, my wife and I always did this natural thing, which was whenever there was an Asian face on screen, to point it out to say, ‘Look,'” Kim explains to Esquire. “Just by doing that, it kind of created a dynamic where you would notice when you didn’t see it.”
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One show that Kim and his family loves but lacks Asian representation is “Friends”.
“My kids loved ‘Friends’ because they would watch repeats and they would say to me, ‘Hey, how come in their New York everyone is white?'” Kim explains. “‘Thank you for thinking about that,’ I would tell them. Because it’s true. As much as I love that show, when it came to diversity it was…it was…challenged, shall we say.”
The NBC sitcom was known for its ensemble cast, all of whom are white.
“When we see a show that has no minority representation, we’d say, ‘Wow that, that’s an awfully homogeneous cast.’ It’s important that we look at all of our entertainment through our lens. But it always says something about the way that I grew up,” the “Lost” star says.
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Kim, who also runs his own production company, shares that Asian-Americans are statistically more likely to
Dana Delany (Body of Proof) will join Sylvester Stallone in the new original series Tulsa King for Paramount+.
Joe Otterson TV ReporterDana Delany has joined the cast of “Tulsa King” opposite Sylvester Stallone at Paramount+, Variety has learned exclusively.Stallone leads the series, with other cast members including Andrea Savage, Martin Starr, Max Casella, Domenick Lombardozzi, Vincent Piazza, Jay Will, A.C. Peterson, and Garrett Hedlund.The show follows New York mafia capo Dwight “The General” Manfredi (Stallone), just after he is released from prison after 25 years and unceremoniously exiled by his boss to set up shop in Tulsa, Okla.
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