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18 Actors Who Were Pressured To Lose, Change, Or Exaggerate Their Accents To Have A Career

by Admin October 5, 2024

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In 2023, Stephanie Hsu told the New York Times, “At the time when I was finishing school and living in New York, those roles were not available in the mainstream. And I had no interest in selling myself or just shrinking myself to an inappropriate cameo just so that I could say I added one more thing to my résumé. I remember in 2012, I went into a commercial audition, and they were like, ‘OK, could you do it again, but with a more Asian accent?’ And I said, ‘I’m so sorry, but this role is not for me. I don’t do that, and I’m not interested in this part.'”

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In 2021, Steven Yeun told Variety’s Awards Chatter Podcast, “The first audition I had in Chicago was called Awesome ’80s Prom, which was an immersive improvised show, where you have this John Hughes spectrum of characters like Ferris Bueller. Then you have your ‘Long Duk Dongs,’ and I auditioned with Ferris Bueller’s opening monologue. And they said, ‘That was good. Can you do that all again in an Asian accent?’ And I’ll be honest with you. I knew that I didn’t want to do that. The system had no clue that’s not what I wanted. We were just in a different time. And so I remember I did a shitty accent and phoned it, and they still wanted me anyway because that’s how far and few between Asian actors were. So they call, and they said, ‘We’d like to hire you.’ And I said, ‘No.'”

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