Actor/Comic Jimmy O. Yang Breaks Out Of The Background

18 Nov 2024 • 45 min • EN
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In his new Hulu comedy series, Interior Chinatown, Jimmy O. Yang plays a waiter who inadvertently becomes central to a crime story. As an Asian American actor, he says he relates to the character's feeling of invisibility. Yang talks with Ann Marie Baldonado about auditioning for Silicon Valley, working alongside his dad, and feeling like an outsider among other Asians in California. Also, film critic Justin Chang reviews the Indian movie All We Can Imagine as Light. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy

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