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'Gran Torino' star says the film "mainstreamed anti-Asian racism" in America


Bee Vang, who starred opposite Clint Eastwood in
Gran Torino, says the film “mainstreamed anti-Asian racism” in the United States.
Vang says he remains “haunted” by audiences laughing at the racist jokes said by Eastwood’s character in the 2008 film.
The American actor played Thao Vang Lor in the film, a teenager who befriends Walt Kowalski (Eastwood), his racist neighbour.
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In a new essay for
NBC News, Vang credited the film with leading greater Asian representation on screen, but also a rise in anti-Asian racism in America. In the essay, he discusses the Asian American family that were stabbed at a club in Texas and a Thai American who was murdered in San Francisco last month, showing a rise in anti-Asian racism during the COVID-19 pandemic. ....

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'Gran Torino' Star Bee Vang Denounces Film's Anti-Asian Slurs


Gran Torino Star Bee Vang Denounces Film s Anti-Asian Slurs
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“Gran Torino” actor Bee Vang published an op-ed in NBC News’ “Think” column on Wednesday criticizing the anti-Asian slurs in the 2008 movie directed by Clint Eastwood.
Playing Thao Vang Lor in the film alongside Eastwood, Vang said the lead role was a historic cinematic moment for Hmong people, a Southeast Asian ethnic group, around the world. While the story is about two people from different backgrounds that came together to form an unlikely bond, the film featured a many anti-Asian slurs.
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“At the time, there was a lot of discussion about whether the movie’s slurs were insensitive and gratuitous or simply ‘harmless jokes, ” Vang wrote. “I found it unnerving, the laughter that the slurs elicited in theaters with predominantly white audiences. And it was always white people who would say, ‘Can’t you take a ....

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