A Crazy Rich Conversation With 'Crazy Rich Asians'

Growing up as a Chinese-American, finding role models who looked like me on the big screen was always difficult. I saw many movies with all-Asian casts, but they were all Asian, not Asian American. There were movies with Asian leads like “The Replacement Killers” with Chow Yun-fat and “Romeo Must Die” with Jet Li, but aside from “The Joy Luck Club,” I can’t remember another mainstream movie that really spoke to my experience as an Asian American. At one point, I just internalized a belief that society just favored White faces more. I accepted this as the way things were in mainstream Hollywood, and didn’t think things would ever change.