hereās a link to the thread
https://twitter.com/jean_yoon/status/1401644084142514176?s=19
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/television/article-bitterness-abounds-more-fallout-from-kims-convenience/
if iāve mistyped something in the following i.d., please say!
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user: John Doyle [verified badge] @MisterJohnDoyle
About Simu Liuās statement & declarations re #KimsConvenience
[a link to John Doyleās opinion piece in The Globe And Mail entitled āBitterness abounds: More fallout from Kimās Convenienceā. the header image shows actor Simu Liu. the article itself is locked behind a paywall.]
user: Jean Yoon (ģ¤ ģ§ ķ¬ or å°¹ē姬) [verified badge] @jean_yoon
Dear sir, as an Asian Canadian woman, a Korean-Canadian woman w more experience and knowledge of the world of my characters, the lack of Asian female, especially Korean writers in the writers room of Kims made my life VERY DIFFICULT & the experience of working on the show painful
Your attack on my cast mate @SimuLiu, in the defense of my fellow Korean artist Ins Choi is neither helpful nor merited. Mr. Choi wrote the play, I was in in. He created the TV show, but his co-creator Mr. Kevin White was the showrunner, and clearly set the parameters.
This is a FACT that was concealed from us as a cast. It was evident from Mr. Choiās diminished presence on set, or in response to script questions. Between S4 and S5, this FACT became a crisis, and in S5 we were told Mr. Choi was resuming control of the show.
The cast received drafts of all S5 scripts in advance of shooting BECAUSE of Covid, at which time we discovered storylines that were OVERTLY RACIST, and so extremely culturally inaccurate that the cast came together and expressed concerns collectively.
Under Mr. Choiās leadership, S5 restored many of the core values of the original show, and most offensive ājokesā were removed. To give you an idea of what we are talking about, here is one scene from the original S5 drafted under Mr. Whiteās leadership.
Pastor Nina comes to the story to pick up Mrs. Kim for a Zumba class. Mrs. Kim is wearing NUDE shorts, and Pastor Nina is to embarrassed to tell her she looks naked from the waist down. Mr. Kim enters, and the joke is that if youāre married you can say anything.
No one, esp. Mrs. Kim, would be unaware that a garment makes her look naked. Unless she is suddenly cognitively impaired. or STUPID. Stripping someone naked is the first act before public humiliation or rape. So what was so funny about that? At my request, Mr. Choi cut he scene.
THAT scene would have aired hours after 8 people, 6 Asian women, were shot in Atlanta, GA in a hate crime spree that shocked the nation. THIS IS WHY IT MATTERS. If an Asian actor says, āHey this isnāt cool,ā then maybe should just fix it, and say THANK YOU.
And Iām sick of holding this back-Koreans hardly ever get MS: 0.1/100,000 or one in a million. You are 5x more likely to get a blood clot from the AZ vaccine than you are to get MS if youāre Korean. The producers: āBut why does it matter?"And "Jean doesnāt understand comedy.ā
And hey, if I hadnāt spoken up all the Korean food in the show would have been WRONG. Ins doesnāt know how to cook or how things are cooked, no one else in the writers room were Korean, and THEY HAD NO KOREAN CULTURAL RESOURCES IN THE WRITERS ROOM AT ALL.
What I find tragic about this situation was the refusal to believe the urgency with which we advocated for inclusion in the writers room. The failure to send us treatments, outlines, the resistance to cultural corrections & feedback. There is so much I am proud of. But
But S3 & S4 in particular had many moments of dismissal & disrespect as an actor, where it mattered, with the writers. And the more successfully I advocated for my character, the more resistance and suspicion I earned from the Writers/Producers.
In the final bedroom scene in S5, Mrs. Kim weeps because she believes that God has abandoned her. The more she prays for something, the more certain it will get worse. Thatās what it felt like. The love died. ģ¬ė ģģ¼ė©“ ģģ©ģ“ ģź³ ģė¬“ź² ė ģģ
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