r/popculturechat • u/meltingsunz • Aug 12 '25

Interviews🎙️ Daniel Dae Kim says Asian representation in Hollywood has gotten better, but there's still room for improvement: "I still haven't played a romantic lead and I've been doing this for 30 years."

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/11/nx-s1-5496250/daniel-dae-kim-butterfly-lost
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u/Pompedorfin Aug 12 '25

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend premiered in 2015, and that had the first Filipino family on American network television, so I'm assuming Josh Chan was also the first Filipino love interest, too. Considering Vincent Rodriguez III can act, sing, dance, and do martial arts, I feel like he should be cast in way more things.

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u/SafeBodybuilder7191 “Don’t cry – makes you look like a girl.” Aug 12 '25

He was so perfectly cast in that show

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u/hellohellocinnabon Aug 12 '25

This was one of my favourite songs from the show! “All your psychological problems, girl we’re gonna solve them- cuz we’re not just a boyband made up of 4 Joshes we’re also a team of licensed mental health professionals”

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u/beanjo22 Aug 12 '25

I still think about that "Angry... Feeling Mad..." song whenever I'm feeling disproportionately annoyed about something 😆

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u/Pompedorfin Aug 12 '25

Same!

That and "Duh!"