Brand-new “Addicted to Race” episode out now (#49)!
by Jen Chau and Carmen Van Kerckhove
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INTERVIEW WITH TEDDY ZEE
Carmen chats with movie producer Teddy Zee about the current state of representations of Asian-Americans in film and television. Zee is president of Ironpond, an entertainment company that bridges Hollywood and Asia. Previously, he was a top-level studio executive at Columbia and Paramount. He produced Hitch
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Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of
phil wrote:
Teddy Zee talks that Hollyweird is making great progress in casting Asians & Asian Americans. This is the real truth:
Minority actors face a bleak outlook in Hollywood and may have legal grounds for challenging studio casting policies, a UCLA study shows.
“Casting directors take into account race and sex in a way that would be blatantly illegal in any other industry,” said study author Russell Robinson, UCLA acting professor of law….stats cited.
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117954779.html?categoryid=18&cs=1
Colour blind casting is still very (rare). Until that changes based on merit, there will always be structural racism in HW where minority actors are considered only for certain, limited roles, & with Asian men that seems to be especially the case.
He spoke like a true apologist.
Posted 01 Dec 2006 at 11:22 am ¶