Today, 93-year-old James Hong finally receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
and been directed by John Ford andHe has also served as a role model and inspiration for other actors. In 1965, he cofounded the East West Players to give opportunities and representation to other Asian American actors.
I speak for your fans when I say that you are one of those character actors who make whatever you’re in better, just because you’re there. In those days, it was almost all cliché roles. We were villains, busboys, waiters, and shoeshine boys. If you didn’t want to act in a yellowface role, you didn’t get any work at all. I averaged about 10 roles a year, but I put the best I could in each role, so even a clichéd role became human beings. Once in a while there was a colead, but the leading roles were all played by white guys with eye-piece disguises. I was inbut Charlie Chan was played by J. Carrol Naish.
Even my dentist. It was a skeleton script in a way; you didn’t know where the punch lines were. For instance, Elaine says, “We would really like a table” and throws $5 on my table as a tip. I didn’t know what to do. Why wouldn’t this maître d’ take that tip? So I instinctively turned the page on the reservation book to cover the $5. That was just out of the blue. The situation grew because of what I know to do as a comedian. Whether it’syou have to know what style they’ve created.
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