#Repost @nikkioh.co ・・・ 'Asian Bae' Of 'Insecure' Speaks on how his role is Groundbreaking For #AsianGuys & his real life relationship with black female:: “Though Andrew is the only Asian in a predominantly black cast, his character avoids any age-old karate master or graceless math nerd tropes. Hodge told HuffPost that while he’s hesitant to call the character “revolutionary,” the part definitely helps chip away at some long-held stereotypes attached to Asian men. I think it’s so important to see a confident, outspoken, man bun-sporting Asian man on screen saying, ‘I want what I want.’ We haven’t had that before,” said Hodge, who’s of Chinese descent. Hollywood has so rarely allowed Asian men to be romantic leads or to have any roles that portray them as actual desirable human beings. The sexless Asian male stereotype took root years ago, when Chinese immigrants came to the U.S. to build the transcontinental railroad. In an era thick with anti-Chinese sentiment, restrictions like anti-miscegenation laws and, later, the Chinese Exclusion Act, cut off their access to heterosexual norms and ideals, leading to “the emasculated Asian-American male subject,” according to research from 2013. The stereotype was only further perpetuated on the big and small screens. “ “I was ashamed of being Chinese as a kid, and would revel anytime I was confused for Polynesian, Hawaiian or Maori, because these other ethnicities had an exotic attraction and appeal that my [being] Chinese didn’t carry in a white society ― the irony being each of those ethnicities were at one time influenced by Chinese.” Hodge’s character in “Insecure” is groundbreaking not only because Andrew is a romantic interest, but also because he is also part of a rarely represented interracial matchup between a black woman and an Asian man. Like Andrew, Hodge is in an interracial relationship with a black woman. But he’s careful about bringing anything from his personal life onscreen, as that would insinuate that black women are interchangeable and can all be treated the same, so I couldn’t allow myself to do that,” he said.” #AlexanderHodge https://www.instagram.com/p/BovDlyIFn0F/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=23llgxue5cgm
