Given network TV’s record of failing to cast Asian actors as main characters, an extraordinary number of recent broadcast series have Asian or Asian American lead actors.
In fourth grade, Catherine Haena Kim could not muster the courage to audition for the female lead of her school’s production of William Shakespeare’s “The Tempest.” But her teachers saw something in the way she held herself in the classroom. “My teachers actually gave me the part because whenever I did speak up, I was…
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