John Cho

thumb|Cho in 2008 John Cho (born June 16, 1972) is a Korean American actor. Quotes …If you start thinking about representation too much—and you think about what movie should exist for an Asian-American person, and for an Asian-American male, or what you would like to see an Asian-American male doing on TV or in movies, even though that’s a legitimate thing to think about—it clouds my ability to go, “Oh, that’s just a fun thing. I’d like to throw myself into that situation”... On becoming the poster boy for Asian American representation in “John Cho Doesn't Have All the Answers” in GQ Magazine (2018 Aug 14) I’ve always said that it really bothers me that so much of Asian representation in cinema has been people running away from their Asian-ness to find love elsewhere… On the trends typical of films featuring Asian American characters in “John Cho Is One Step Ahead” in Vulture (2018 Aug 24) I’ve spent my life trying to figure out what Asian-ness means…but you know, I really gotta figure out what whiteness means. We all have to figure out what it means, apparently, for our survival. On trying to understand what it means to be Asian in “John Cho Is One Step Ahead” in Vulture (2018 Aug 24) On a political level, I just found that I was more excited by what my skill-set could bring to film and television. Asian [American] theater has stretched the boundaries a little bit, but at the time, [it] was much more involved in what I thought was an older form of expression. It was much more about identity plays, explaining who we were as Asian Americans through dramas. And that didn't interest me as much. I was interested in people who weren't going to theater, and reaching them. That always excited me more, and to this day, theater, though on a formal level is the ideal place for an actor, on some political level, I find it frustrating that theatergoers are mostly rich -- maybe that's unfair -- mostly white… On why he focused his efforts on film and television in “The Game-Changer: An Interview with John Cho” (UCLA Global) External links John Cho Category:Korean Americans Category:Actors from South Korea Category:Singers from the United States Category:Educators from the United States Category:1972 births Category:Living people Category:People from Seoul Category:Immigrants to the United States Category:University of California, Berkeley alumni