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It was a shock that Brie said she regretted the role of Diane Nguyen. There was nothing about the character that was specifically about being Vietnamese woman or Asian that was a big characterization for Diane. Even in the last season, the episode which she travels to Vietnam didn’t include anything which whitewashed the character. That is the only time in Bojack Horseman that the series addressed the ethnicity of the character. Even in the episode she travels to Boston to visit family, it never brought up cultural things. Never once heard backlash against Brie for voicing the character. As an Asian, I never felt uncomfortable with the Brie voicing an Asian person.
So weird to get wrapped around the axle over nothing.
I have a Malay coworker, as in first-gen immigrant. Over the phone you'd never know, zero accent. So Brie doing the voice makes sense.
My extended family includes Italian, Polish, Greek, Spanish, Irish, French. Should any of us be offended to be voice-charactered by, well, anyone?
The real outrage is that the Bojack voice actor wasn't an actual horse!
You’re thinking of Wallace Shawn.
I don't watch this show so I don't have a horse in this race, but the idea is that there are few enough opportunities for Asian actors already. Brie is a good actor and widely beloved, there will always be another opportunity for her.
You say they don't whitewash the character, but then you say they only address the character's ethnicity once. That's a bit contradictory isn't it?
Poor choice of words. The ethnicity wasn’t a major characterization.