Ross Butler’s adamancy about not allowing producers to place him in a box helped catapult the rising star into the big leagues.
In a recent interview with Mashable, Ross Butler, who also stars on Riverdale, gave more insight into how he began booking "common” roles. It turns out this wasn’t merely a stroke of good luck.
“[After] I started getting auditions and seeing that all the auditions I was getting were these stereotypical roles, that’s when I really first realized that there weren’t any Asian American male role models. And it occurred to me that that’s what needed to change.
It's starting to get better and we are starting to see more Asians in roles, but we're not seeing a lot of Asians playing roles [that are] not specifically written for Asians. So when I first started out, I was being sent on auditions for "the geek," "the techie." Let's be honest guys, I don't look like a techie [laughs]
The Riverdale and 13 Reasons Why star then had an idea, he informed his agent that he no longer wanted to audition for stereotypical “Asian roles.”
