‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Director Responds to Brenda Song That She Was ‘Not Asian Enough’ to Audition

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  • Author: Brian Welk
  • November 21,2019

‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Director Responds to Brenda Song That She Was ‘Not Asian Enough’ to AuditionCrazy Rich Asians” director Jon M. Chu responded and apologized to actress Brenda Song after she said that she was unable to audition for the romantic comedy because she was “not Asian enough.”

Song did an interview with Teen Vogue addressing an observation from fans that she was the “original Crazy Rich Asian” when she played the wealthy character London on the Disney Channel’s “The Suite Life of Zack and Cody.” She told the magazine that she never got to read for the part and was informed by her managers that she wasn’t right for a role in the film.

“Their reasoning behind that, what they said was that my image was basically not Asian enough, in not so many words. It broke my heart,” she said. “I said, ‘This character is in her late to mid-20s, an Asian American, and I can’t even audition for it?
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