thank you, alex with, as always. my good friend. and a good saturday morning to you, if you ve been following along, there s been exclusive coverage by msnbc of the coronation of king charles iii. i am katie phang. it s been a very busy news morning, as we mentioned, the world continues to watch london. hours ago, king charles the third, and now queen camilla, were officially crowned in a two-hour ceremony in westminster abby. you saw it all life during our coverage on msnbc this morning. we re going to go in-depth on a royals expert this morning but first, another major story we are on top of this morning. an msnbc exclusive, president biden on the record. the 11th hour host, stephanie ruhle goes, on an on with president biden in an exclusive interview that covered a lot of ground, from the debt ceiling show down to the presidents reelection bid for 2024. here s some of that interview. as president, what are you going to do to help us avoid default? look, not a single
little comes was literature that discusses her career including her making history by becoming the first asian american actress to lead the first american television on the hollywood walk of fame for acting. joining me now is one of the collaborators who worked on this tall, and she also happens to be anna may wong niece. anna, good morning so much thank you for me, growing up, barbie dolls were white, blue eyed, blond haired girls. i brought one of my original barbie dolls with me today, because i wanted everybody to see. this is a 40 year old barbies all. when i was eight years old, this is what barbies looks like. they were not asian, black, hispanic, they weren t dark haired, they didn t look different when i was eight, but now i have an eight year old daughter and she gets to have this be the barbie dolls that she gets to play with. so, what does it mean, anna, to
have this asian barbie dahl? and it was your and, but what does it mean to you to have this asian bar be available for all children everywhere? thank you for having me. it is an amazing honor to work with barbie and my family is so proud. keeping the legacy of my aunt alive is illegal but myself, my family, and representations for asians. as you said, my barbies where the blond and blue eyed ones, and i used to think to myself, why are they re barbies that don t look like me? there were no dolls. and this is amazing for aapi months to celebrate the release of the anna may wong inspired barbie dolls. it s amazing. women need to be represented, and i m glad your daughter has a tall that looks like her and she can play with it. yeah. so, analysts, like about your and for a second. i wanted to focus on the ex oracle anecdote that i think speaks of what representation
oscar because that was friction. i think yellowface and louise rainier, while she did a very good job, my aunt was devastated that this was the situation. she thought she was born to play the role of a lawn, and i think she would ve been amazing. had she won, if she had been in that role, would she have won the oscar? i don t know, which have been been nominated in that timeframe. i don t know. and, not before had to let you go, i listen a minute, i do want to ask, this, dalby it was in aapi heritage month, how important is it for you to feel like, not only we have the brown breaking anna may wong ball for the barbie series, but to do other things to spotlight our community. i think we have a lot to do, and i m so glad that anna may wong inspiring barbie is the first step. i think we can do it. asians are here to stay. we can be represented in
that scream you heard when michelle yeoh won, that was me. it s been amazing. to get back to your question, though, yes louise reno did win the oscar in yellowface. i find yellowface horrifying, and the fact that we had to do that, that there is asian actors capable of playing a role for an asian character, when they turn around and take a non asian actor, make them yellow face to play a issues too confusing. i find that, nowadays, were much better represented, but we also have so much farther to go. there was a series, recently, it was a fictionalized carter of anna may wong and she won an oscar. for weeks, people were asking me, my phone keplinger, saying, do you have her oscar, can i see it? no, because i ended when an