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Hollywood s top grossing films rarely include API roles and when they do actors are cast in stereotypical roles. The exception: Dwayne Johnson, who accounts for a third of all API lead actor roles.
Movies Bypass Asian And Pacific Islander Actors And Directors, Study Finds
By Vanessa Romo
May 18, 2021
The actor Dwayne Johnson is not only saving the world driving fastly and furiously, he is apparently also saving Hollywood from largely excluding Asian and Pacific Islander actors from leading roles in movies over the last dozen years, according to a new study.
The actor Dwayne Johnson is not only saving the world driving fastly and furiously, he is apparently also saving Hollywood from largely excluding Asian and Pacific Islander actors from leading roles in movies over the last dozen years, according to a new study.
As the title states, the study by Nancy Wang Yuen, Stacy L. Smith and the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative analyzed 1,300 top-grossing movies to track representation of API people on both sides of the camera and among company executives from 2007 to 2019.
The authors say what they found shows just 44 films 3.4% featured an API lead or co-lead performer, and only six films were led or co-led by an API woman. Breaking it down further, the group s work reveals that of those 44 movies, 14 of them starred Johnson. That is a third of the films starring API people. Additionally, nearly 40% of the films reviewed had no API representation at all.
By KAREN ANN KURLANDER
May 18, 2021 at 5:21 PM
The 2021-2022 Summit Board of Education, from left: Vanessa Primack, Yon Cho, Chris Bonner, Michael Colón, Donna Miller, Walidah Justice and Melanie Cohn.
The 2021-2022 Summit Board of Education, from left: Vanessa Primack, Yon Cho, Chris Bonner, Michael .
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Michael Colón is sworn to a new term as Board Member by Lou Pepe.
Michael Colón is sworn to a new term as Board Member by Lou Pepe.
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Walidah Justice is sworn in as a member of the Summit Board of Education.