.MargaretCho on Awkwafina and Bowen Yang breaking barriers as Asian comedians: “To be able to create a new lane and a new space for Asian Americans to grow into, it’s really powerful.”
Even her music. It's very much very true to life, very funny presentation of her as this iconic, struggling kid. It's really cool. I was excited to be a part of it. And Lori Tan Chinn came out to L.A. to hang out and so we got to talk about cats, and that's always my favorite. It's amazing to be in this new generation of Asian American television and to be able to see the difference. BD and I were together in 1994, and it was so different and so hard. And Lori even before that.
The cast is an embarrassment of riches. You have Awkwafina, BD Wong, Bowen Yang. Is there a sense of pride being welcomed into the party? Absolutely. Everybody is so exceptional, and that's the story of us in entertainment anyway. We had to work so hard to get noticed as Asian Americans in comedy, and queer Asian Americans in comedy in particular. Especially for me and Bowen and BD, that's a very big deal. To be queer and Asian American is tough because they're very classically patriarchal cultures that don't accept outsiders. So we're entertainers and we're also queer and just different.
He's so talented and he's so important to the legacy of Asian Americans in comedy because he's like our golden child. But in a sense, his presence, his writing style and his aura really reminds me of somebody like Truman Capote. There's something very erudite and elegant about his presentation that is like Tennessee Williams or Truman Capote or James Baldwin.
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