I don't like when an Asian-American actor says, 'I'm entering this business to change Hollywood.' It feels like the wrong reason - I would prefer they entered the business for artistic reasons, because they need to do it.

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Actor Artistic Asian-American Because Business Change Entered Entering Feels Hollywood Like Need Prefer Reason Reasons Says Would Wrong

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