Cho Chang!

[sarea]

Yay, Cho!

I'm just glad she's East Asian, since that's what I assumed she'd be with a name like Cho Chang. (I'd heard they were calling for Southeast Asian and was like WTF??) Possibly she could have been Korean rather than Chinese, both would have worked. Anyway, this Katie Leung girl is definitely Chinese with a name like Leung and since her dad's from Hong Kong. Yay!

Very interesting that she hails from Scotland. Always thought of Cho as having an English accent ... but then I thought the same of Oliver Wood, too. Cho/Oliver!! My new OTP. <g>

There are two things I really hope for:

1) That she speak perfect English, because I am tired of seeing the bullshit stereotype that Asian people have must have Asian accents. That's been waning in recent times, but it still happens often enough to piss me off. Not that many Asian people don't, of course, but in this particular case, Cho is British born and bred, so there ought to be no question of her fluency.

2) That she be attractive, because in the books, really only she, Cedric, and I think Fleur have been deliberately called out as being physically attractive. It's part of who they are as characters. Harry, Hermione, Draco, and the rest of them could technically be butt ugly/completely average and it wouldn't matter wrt canon, but the first three I named are supposed to be good looking. What worries me in this regard is that as an Asian person, I often have differing taste from casting directors as to what a pretty Chinese girl ought to look like. Sometimes I see people who are cast and go, "WTF? You couldn't find someone more attractive than that? I KNOW they're out there." Did they even bother to look? This time they had 4,000 people to choose from, so I'm hoping I can live w/ their choice.

Comments

[sydney-lynne.livejournal.com]

Oh hee. I agree with you. I can never understand why Lucy Liu is considered attractive (I think she was one of People's 50 most beautiful this year) because I"m like, no just no. Zhang Ziyi is gorgeous. Ming Na I used to think was pretty in her Joy Luck Club days but ER has made her such a bitch that it's hard for me to like her anymore. Michelle Yeoh is ordinary looking, IMO. My mom says that something that makes people attractive is "chi zhi" but there's no English translation for it, natural grace is the closest translation I can think of.

Re: Oliver/Cho. Well, anything that gets you away from the evils of Draco/Cho and Oliver/Ginny. *G*

[sarea-okelani.livejournal.com]

I mean, I'm proud of Lucy and all for making an impact where so many Asian women have failed, but you know, she's basically been the same character in all her movies, because that's actually what people like -- Lucy Liu in bitch mode. I have yet to see a well-rounded Asian actress become successful. There are scenes in Kill Bill where I actually think she looks beautiful, though normally I don't think she's all that attractive.

Haha, I think most people agree about Zhang Ziyi. ITA re: Michelle. It's not that I don't like her, it's more that, if we're talking about looks, she's not all that. Like, I love Michelle Kwan and I think she's pretty, but what actually makes her stupendously appealing is her talent and her attitude. Re: Ming Na, I haven't seen ER in forever, certainly not before she came on board, so I don't have that influencing me. I saw her on 'The Single Guy,' though.