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Asians and Pacific Islanders Are Leads in 3% of Top Films Since 2007, Study Finds
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thewrap.comAsian and Pacific Islander characters on screen were completely missing from 39% — or roughly four out of 10 — of the top grossing films dating back to 2007, a new study has found.
Of 1,300 analyzed films, only 44 movies, or 3.4%, had an API lead or co-lead. That last number is not great, and it would be even worse if not for Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, who is of Samoan heritage and was the star of 14 of those 44 movies.
Only six of the 44 films had a lead that was either a woman or a girl. The new data on Asians and Pacific Islanders in film comes from the latest study from the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative.
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