{"id":53674,"date":"2017-04-24T03:13:48","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T03:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=53674"},"modified":"2017-04-24T03:13:48","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T03:13:48","slug":"a-multiracial-actress-katie-chang-has-considered-changing-her-last-name-in-an-attempt-to-land-more-roles-but-when-her-first-film-the-bling-ring-directed-by-sofia-coppola-came-o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=53674","title":{"rendered":"A multiracial actress, [Katie] Chang has considered changing her last name in an attempt to land more roles. But when her first film, \u201cThe Bling Ring\u201d directed by Sofia Coppola, came out in 2013, she decided against it."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A multiracial actress, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Katie_Chang\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">[Katie] Chang<\/a> has considered changing her last name in an attempt to land more roles. But when her first film, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Bling_Ring\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Bling Ring<\/a>\u201d directed by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sofia_Coppola\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sofia Coppola<\/a>, came out in 2013, she decided against it. While she noted that some casting directors aren\u2019t looking to cast \u201cKatie Chang as a lead actress\u201d in teen-focused romantic comedies, she said her decision not to use a stage name has pushed her to work harder.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Tiffany Hu, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=53665\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018The Bling Ring\u2019 Actress Katie Chang Finds Drive In Activism and Identity<\/a>,\u201d <em>NBC News<\/em>, April 20, 2017. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/asian-america\/bling-ring-actress-katie-chang-finds-drive-activism-identity-n745736\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/asian-america\/bling-ring-actress-katie-chang-finds-drive-activism-identity-n745736<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A multiracial actress, [Katie] Chang has considered changing her last name in an attempt to land more roles. But when her first film, \u201cThe Bling Ring\u201d directed by Sofia Coppola, came out in 2013, she decided against it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[26887,15127,26886],"class_list":["post-53674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-katie-chang","tag-nbc-news","tag-tiffany-hu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53675,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53674\/revisions\/53675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}