Steven Yeun is speaking out about his experience as an Asian American in the entertainment industry. In a recent episode of Variety‘s Award Circuit podcast, The Walking Dead alum discussed micro-aggressions he faced in the entertainment industry. Steven recalled an early audition for a show in Chicago called Awesome 80s Prom where he was asked to recite Ferris Bueller’s opening monologue in an Asian accent. “I knew that I didn’t want to do that,” he said. “The system had no clue that’s not what I wanted.
We were just in a different time. And so I remember I did a s-tty accent and phoned it, and they still wanted me anyway because that’s how far and few between Asian actors were.” The actor ultimately declined the role he was offered.
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