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Everything Everywhere All At Once: Asian actors make Oscars history, Asian stories change the industry

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Crazy Rich Asian

In Hollywood, there is an age issue, but probably not as much as in Asia. Michelle was out of work for over two years voluntarily or involuntarily because she doesn't want to play those roles. She has a certain nest egg and got a rich husband that she cannot fork to say no to those parts. But most Asian actors here in Hollywood cannot afford to sayno to a lot of parts. So now with this movie, every everywhere, okay, so it's a breakdown movie. Where does this go from here? Crazy Rich Asian made the $100 billion in the US and he made $5 million in China. They are not supporting the Asian film here.

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