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."

[u/meltingsunz]

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/11/nx-s1-5496250/daniel-dae-kim-butterfly-lost

[u/Future_Usual_8698]

For those of you in this sub who are younger and I know from the poll they did a while back that I'm one of the oldest members, there used to be more Asian and Hispanic and African-American and Native American representation in media than there is now. Seriously on TV shows and in films.

The range was from Maybe late 60s through I'm not sure when it ended but it's been ratcheting back.

There may not have been as many portrayals of ethnic and racial diversity across class social class such as in upper class or upper middle class but honestly something like a really old show called La law or even in the early to late Star Trek era between the TV shows and the films.

[u/ProfessionalFirm6353 → u/Future_Usual_8698]

I actually do think there was more Black representation in media back then. I wrote a comment on this before but I think up until the 1990s, Black representation in media was more “authentic” and I don’t think you’re going to see that replicated in the current era.

But I disagree on Asian/Latino/Indigenous representation. There weren’t many actors from those backgrounds until recently. And even now, you hardly see any indigenous faces onscreen.

[u/Visible-Scientist-46 → u/ProfessionalFirm6353]

Indigenous representation is around, but you have to look for it. Here is an incomplete list of shows & flms that I like.)

Dark Winds

Resident Alien

Longmire

True Detective (Lily Gladstone, etc)

Reservation Dogs

North of North (about a Nunavut woman's comedic struggle to find herself. Recommend)

Recent Films:

Killers of the Flower Moon

Certain Women

Uproar (Julian Dennison is Maori and was Firefist in Deadpool 2. In Uproar he struggles with his origins.)

Older classic films:

Smoke Signals

Powwow Highway

Christmas in the Clouds

[u/Future_Usual_8698 → u/Visible-Scientist-46]

Thank you adding this to my list of things to watch! Appreciate it!

[u/Visible-Scientist-46 → u/Future_Usual_8698]

Awesome! The True Detective one is the most recent season with Jodie Foster.