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Secrets of my hollywood life series6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() In this animated take, viewers will see Mr. Wing, the store owner played by Keye Luke who houses original Gremlin Gizmo in the 1984 flick. Chun wanted to expand on the family history of Mr. ![]() Animation, had the idea to do a prequel to Gremlins and gave showrunner Tze Chun the reins to come up with ideas. He is also helping to revisit some and flesh them out. Those “Asian cliches” are far behind him now. ![]() “That irritated me for many, many years.”Ī lot of his early roles reflected the limited options for Asian actors at the time: workers in laundries, restaurants on railroad lines. “Then he would just talk in a very stoic pattern that’s supposedly Chinese,” Hong recalled. He had to stomach watching a white lead actor “put on fake eye pieces” so that his eyes would look more “Asian.” In the series The New Adventures of Charlie Chan, Hong played the son of the titular Chinese detective. But so did roles that were racist tropes. Small film roles opposite actors like Clark Gable followed. He got his break break on Groucho Marx’s quiz show, You Bet Your Life. After serving in the Korean War, he decided in 1953 to move to Hollywood. Born in Minneapolis, Hong originally studied civil engineering in college. ![]()
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