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

[seldon.livejournal.com]

It's scary, we have the same taste in asian girls :P Ziyi Zhang is one of the most beautiful females I've seen in movies, IMHO, while I've never understood why people refer to Lucy Liu as good looking. I've thought Ming Na is very attractive since I first saw her in "The Single Guy", while Michelle Yeoh has always left me cold when it comes to her looks (her fighting scenes are entirely another matter).

I can't tell you what makes them attractive, though. But then again I'm male - we classify girls in "good looking" and "not good looking" instinctively and in a blink. Note, though, that good or bad looks are not the only nor the most important factor that dictates if a woman is "hot" ;) Michelle Yeoh could be considered as hot, while Ziyi Zhang is so hot she might spontaneously combust at any given moment.

I wouldn't worry about Cho Chang, though. In a movie series where even Hermione looks beautiful, I'm fairly sure they chose a stunning Cho. That won't keep me from disliking her preemptively in GoF, though :p

[sarea-okelani.livejournal.com]

It's not scary -- what you mean is that we have the same impeccable taste in physical beauty. Bwahahahaha.

we classify girls in "good looking" and "not good looking" instinctively and in a blink

D00d, girls do that too. Don't let anyone fool you otherwise. It's true re: looks. There is an indefinable something. I was just saying to sydney_lynne that I think Michelle Kwan is really pretty, but I think mostly that comes from her talent and her attitude. Otherwise I'd probably say she was average.

I'm fairly sure they chose a stunning Cho.

But you see, did they choose a Zhang Ziyi-stunning, or did they choose a Lucy Liu-stunning? That's what worries me. ;)