Jon M. Chu, Fala Chen Discuss AAPI Representation in Hollywood During UTA Inclusion Panel Variety 3 hrs ago
According to “Crazy Rich Asians” and “In the Heights” filmmaker Jon M. Chu, many of the depictions of Asian women he’s seen portrayed in Hollywood films are “not the Asian women that we know.”
“That’s not my mother, not my grandmother, not my sister, not my best friend,” Chu said during a virtual panel presented Tuesday by United Talent Agency (UTA) in honor of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.
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The lineup for the virtual event called “The State of AAPI Representation in Film, TV & Culture” was made up of UTA clients Chu, actors Fala Chen and Daniel Wu, and Mary Lee, head of film at A-Major Media, as well as Paula Madison, chair and CEO of Madison Media Management. The conversation was co-moderated by UTA partner and TV literary agent David Park and UTA’s Asia business development executive Emily Song, and
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I am so proud of her what this means to all of us. We’ve been supporting Kamala all these years, Brown said.
The day was also especially meaningful for a group that call themselves “The Big Girlz, a group of Black female executives who’ve been meeting for 40 years. That includes Paula Madison, former president and general manager of NBC4. It’s emotional. We love this country, said Marsha Diggs, a member of The Big Girlz. The Indian village of Thulasendrapuram, the birthplace of Vice President Kamala Harris’ grandfather, held festivities to coincide with her historic inauguration.
Madison said she met Harris at an airport when Harris was district attorney of San Francisco and thinking about a run for California attorney general.