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step forward when an Asian guy got to play
« on: Oct 19th, 2016, 10:45pm » |
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It was a huge step forward when an Asian guy got to play the leading man alongside a sexy co-star as Chow-Yun Fat did with Mira Sorvino in "The Replacement Killers" (199 and Jet Li did with Aaliyah in "Romeo Must Die" (2000). In both cases, though, neither got to kiss the girl, which gets into the whole issue of negative or non-existent portrayals of Asian male sexuality.
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