Fighting Back
Co-showrunners Christina M. Kim and Robert Berens take on issues of inclusion, representation, and racism in their reboot of the ’70s hit series
Kung Fu.
Kung Fu.
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Robert Berens
For the majority of my career I ve been in many [writers’] rooms that right now people would be canceled for. In every room I was in that was inappropriate, that was not a positive work environment, all I could think about was,
One day, I hope that I m a showrunner, and I m not going to do this. – Christina Kim
Last year, when co-showrunners Christina M. Kim and Robert Berens were staffing the room for Kim’s reimagining of the ’70s ABC cult series,
Stargirl, Kung Fu Renewed at The CW
Months after rumors started circulating on social media that The CW was set to renew
Stargirl for a third season, the deal is done. Today that network not only announced a third season for
Stargirl showing faith in the not-yet-aired second season of the fan-favorite superhero drama from executive producers Geoff Johns and Rob Hardy but a second season for freshman hit
Kung Fu. Since The CW is working with super-producers Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter on both projects, the pair of high-profile renewals mark a real good news, everyone! moment behind the scenes at the network.
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The makeup of the cast carries extra weight given that
Kung Fu is a reimagining of the 1972 television show of the same name by Ed Spielman, which followed the story of the half-Chinese, half-white Shaolin monk Kwai Chang Caine, played by David Carradine, a white actor. The new adaptation arrives at a time when calls for an end to Hollywood’s whitewashing of roles have gotten louder. In recent years, a pattern of white actors cast as Asian characters in particular from Tilda Swinton as the Ancient One in
Doctor Strange to Scarlett Johansson as Major Motoko Kusanagi in the live-action adaptation of