Opinion: Hollywood is putting mixed couples on screen. If only they would talk about it.Posted in Articles, Asian Diaspora, Communications/Media Studies, Media Archive, United States on 2022-01-06 17:17Z by Steven |
Opinion: Hollywood is putting mixed couples on screen. If only they would talk about it.
The Washington Post
2021-12-29
Tracy Moore, Contributing Writer at Vanity Fair
Los Angeles, California
(Jason Lyon/For The Washington Post)
In Netflix’s holiday rom-com “Love Hard,” comedian Jimmy O. Yang plays Josh Lin, a Chinese American everyman who uses the photo of his much-hotter, mixed-race Asian friend Tag (Darren Barnet) to get dating app matches. The ploy works. He links with and falls for Natalie (Nina Dobrev), a White woman so smitten she flies cross-country to surprise him.
But — shocker — Josh isn’t the beefcake in the photos, but a regular guy. Natalie is incensed, though not about his race. Guilty about his catfishing, Josh helps Natalie woo handsome Tag instead.
Natalie also meets real Josh’s Chinese family, where his father is married to a White woman and his brother dates one. These arrangements surprised me — Asian male/White female relationships, called AMWF online, are rarely shown on-screen. That has finally begun to change, but I’m still waiting for the couples to talk about it…
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