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by earning it, not getting it for free like I did,” he said. “My mom was born in Taiwan and so were all my grandparents and they all became citizens the same way. Hudson said that episode was a “really important one because it talked about something that so many people just take for granted.” Matriarch Jessica, played by Constance Wu, goes through her own citizenship journey while Louis discovers some interesting details about his wife’s past during her immigration interview. He recalled a scene in which his character, along with Evan, played by Ian Chen, and Grandma Huang, played by Lucille Soong, danced to TLC’s “Waterfalls,” adding that he didn’t “think the majority of non-Asian viewers ever thought of Asians living those cultural iconic moments or considered us as sharing in them until they watched our show.”įor Hudson Yang, who plays the main character Eddie, the most important moment was the episode “How To Be An American” from the third season. To me, those are the things that are super cool - the fact that we could share these moments and let people know that these are things that exist in some Asian households on top of the specific cultural things.”įorrest Wheeler, who plays Emery on the show, shared a similar sentiment. These are things we’ve seen in sitcom history over and over again, that we’ve never seen with an Asian father and son. “The Asian dad, talking to his son about the birds and the bees. They’re new, especially, to people watching in a log of parts of the country and the world where they’ve never seen an Asian American couple talk about their sex life,” he said. “Because we have Asian faces, they’re just new. He explained that though the concept doesn’t sound particularly revolutionary, audiences had so rarely witnessed Asian Americans experience typical milestones and familial interactions in the past that these moments are significant. For Park, the most impactful aspect wasn’t a particular episode but the “smaller moments” that humanized the relationships between family members, whether it was the dynamic between husband and wife or father and son. Since its debut in 2015, the show, based on a memoir of the same name by restaurateur Eddie Huang, explored topics specific to the Asian American experience from “Asian flush” to the embarrassing “lunch box” moment so many kids from immigrant families deal with. ” Ian Chen, Forrest Wheeler, Hudson Yang, Randall Park and Constance Wu. And I think we’ve definitely played a part in this change happening in the industry,” Randall Park, who plays patriarch Louis Huang, said of the show’s impact on Asian representation. “As far as our place in history, I feel really, really grateful and proud of what we’ve done. The actors who portrayed the Huangs spoke to NBC News about the moments they felt were the most culturally significant for the community.

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