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[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 26 points 4 months ago (4 children)

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.

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 11 points 4 months ago

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?

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The real outrage is that the Bojack voice actor wasn't an actual horse!

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 2 points 4 months ago

You’re thinking of Wallace Shawn.

[–] noseatbelt@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 4 points 4 months ago

Poor choice of words. The ethnicity wasn’t a major characterization.

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

"The world's been burning since it's been turning"

I mean we have writings from thousands of years ago essentially telling the same story as today.

[–] Beardsley@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Without all the nuclear bombs and climate change and all that though

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

Smallpox, bubonic plague, mongol hordes

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 7 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Physically or mentally, tho?

[–] bromos@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago
[–] JeSuisUnHombre@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 months ago

Neither are great tbh

[–] muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Let it burn. Why worry about shit u can't control?

[–] Emi@ani.social 2 points 4 months ago

If problem has a solution you don't have to worry about it. If problem doesn't have a solution there's no point worrying about it. -quote I don't remember author of.

[–] Shanmugha@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Well, remember you are going to die way sooner than "world". So if you don't manage to even have a good time, facing death will be very unpleasant