Another fine data interactive from The Pudding looking at Asian American representation in Hollywood and how accurate it is1:
This project was prompted by the disheartening experiences we’ve had watching miscast characters in popular media, so we came into this project expecting more miscastings than not.
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But we know how fragile this progress can be. In 2024, racial and gender diversity in Hollywood decreased for the first time in six years, part of a larger social regression. In a recent interview, Constance Wu said that she’s noticed that representation is becoming less important in casting. She said this could be a sign of people in Hollywood “reverting to limited imaginations of what story and characters could be.”
We’re worried about what we might be losing.
Dorothy Lu, who wrote the script and analysed the data for this interactive
- Quote slightly truncated as not to reveal the outcome of the analysis ↩︎