How were asian actors and characters treated at the time in American films? Which of these actors' stories could you relate to? Explain why you found their achievements so significant.
During this time, asian actors and characters usually had to portray racial stereotypes to get people to watch. People at that time weren't thinking critically about authentic cultural or ethnic representation before the 1960-70s. When they were given roles that didn't revolve around their race, they were usually secondary characters to a main white lead. Many of them would lose roles to white people in yellowface. By the 1930s, romantic Asian male leads were also basically nonexistent. Even in these cases when a white actor was portraying an Asian onscreen, interracial relations were still forbidden, preventing Asian-Americans from landing these roles. I found Anna May's story the most interesting and relatable, since she was fascinated by film from a very early age.
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