PHOTO ALBERT SANCHEZ
I speak to Margaret Cho on the day that English actor and rapper Ed Skrein (yes, the hirsute hero of Game Of Thrones S3 fame) announces he’s decided not to play a character written as Japanese American in the new Hellboy movie amid accusations of yellowface, an issue that is close to the comedian’s heart.
It wasn’t that long ago that Cho had an email run-in with androgynous actor Tilda Swinton after the latter was cast in Doctor Strange as a character originally written as a Tibetan man. Cho explained why this was problematic, prompting Swinton to ask Cho “why all the Asian people were mad”. Cho then accused Swinton of treating her “like her house Asian… like her servant”, going on to tell podcast TigerBelly, “Bitch, I can’t tell them… I don’t have a yellow phone under a cake dome.”
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