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USC Report Finds That Lack Of Movie Roles & Stereotypes Persist For Asian American & Pacific Islanders
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deadline.comA new report from USC’s Annenberg Inclusion Initiative found that only 5.9% of the 51,159 speaking roles in the 1,300 top-grossing movies from 2007-2019 were played by Asian American and Pacific Island actors, and that only 3.4% of those films had an API lead or co-lead, with only six movies featuring an API woman in a leading or co-leading role.Of those 1,300 films, only three – 0.002% – were directed by AIP women, and none received a solo directing credit for a live action top-grossing feature film in the 13 years that were studied.
Asian American and Pacific Islanders make up 7.1% of the U.S. population.The data span ends one year before Chloé Zhao last month became the first Asian woman and woman of color (and second woman ever) to win
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