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- (The answer in this case is yes, absolutely.) Sure, in a perfect world, there have been so many Asian-American male romantic leads that this casting choice is hardly worth noting as unusual or counter-intuitive, but as Cho himself acknowledges we don't live in that world.
www.npr.org › sections › codeswitchIn 'Selfie', John Cho Gets An Unlikely Shot As A Romantic Lead
Sep 28, 2014 · Still, it's not lost on Cho that his casting — as a somewhat-possibly-romantically interesting lead opposite a white woman on a major network show — really does mean something.
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Dec 28, 2017 · groundbreaking in that it featured a male asian as a lead which rarely happens (can’t recall a time that it did), especially in a romantic comedy.
Sep 30, 2014 · John Cho has been a familiar presence in television (SLEEPY HOLLOW, GO ON) and movies (the STAR TREK franchise, the HAROLD & KUMAR franchise), but with his new ABC comedy, SELFIE, he’s taking on a new challenge with his character, Henry: the romantic leading man.
2014 John Cho interview about Selfie: "It was really fun to do something romantic, which you know, speaking of being Asian, that's something. That for an Asian male in Hollywood, that's unfortunately rare. And so, I just had a great time doing that."
May 12, 2016 · John Cho is one of the most recognizable Asian-American actors in pop culture. So the fact that Cho hasn’t had the opportunity to save the world as a Marvel superhero or romance a leading lady in a...
Oct 6, 2014 · ABC’s new show Selfie premiered last Tuesday, with Korean American actor John Cho starring as Henry (the leading male role) in the new half-hour comedy. The show portrays Eliza Dooley (Karen Gillan) who is obsessed with gaining more “Likes” on social media than actually being liked in real life.
Cho starred as Henry Higgs in the short-lived sitcom Selfie, a retooling of the play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw, becoming the first Asian American man to play a romantic lead on a U.S. romantic comedy television series in 2014.
