Ashley Park Says She Had White Actresses As ‘Role Models,’ Says She Thought She’d Be In The Industry To ‘Support Their Stories’
etcanada.com“Joy Ride” star Ashley Park recently spoke about her beginnings and her big break with People. When Ashley Park was growing up, she seldom encountered anybody who resembled her.
Her parents, Andrew and Sara, who both emigrated to California from South Korea as youngsters, gave birth to her in Glendale, California, and reared her in Ann Arbour, Michigan. READ MORE: ‘Joy Ride’ Co-Stars Ashley Park And Sherry Cola On Their K-Pop Names “My only access to an Asian community was in our Korean American church there,” says Park, 32. “I would go there on Sundays.
Me and my younger sister Audrey weren’t completely fluent in Korean, and I had a very different community there than I did at school and the rest of my life.” “Of course, I remember watching Lucy Liu in Charlie’s Angels…and Sandra Oh, too,” she says. “[But] to be honest, all of my role models were White actresses, whether it be Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, Meryl Streep, Laura Linney or Emma Thompson, because I got to see them be people with humanity and flaws on the screen.
And I had hoped that I could be part of that one day—with the acknowledgement and genuine okayness of knowing that I’d probably just be in the industry to support their stories.” Park’s “Emily In Paris” gained outstanding love from the audience.
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