#StarringJohnCho: Fed Up With Hollywood’s Whitewashing, One Photoshop Guru Is Recreating Movie Posters.
by The Daily Eye Team May 14 2016, 3:13 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 31 secsFrustrations over a lack of diversity in the 2015 Academy Awards nominations birthed the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite. It took over social media and has dominated Oscars coverage since.
Now a new hashtag is trending on Twitter that's reigniting that conversation about race in Hollywood and calling attention to a shortage of Asian American actors in starring roles. It's called #StarringJohnCho.
John Cho is best known for his role in the "Harold and Kumar" movies, in which he plays Harold, the responsible, always aggravated sidekick to Kal Penn's pot-smoking Kumar. (John Cho also plays Sulu in the re-booted Star Trek series).