We are three-quarters of the way through 2018 and the rumble of Hollywood’s cavalry charge towards proper representation of diversity is becoming a fully fledged roar — with Crazy Rich Asians joining Black Panther in the “no white people and a multimillion-dollar box office” vanguard.
As every article about Crazy Rich Asians is obliged to mention, it is the first film from a major studio with a predominantly Asian-American cast since The Joy Luck Club, 25 years ago. At the screening I attended, the young cast highlighted this when they introduced the film. Years of seeing Asian roles go to Scarlett Johansson (Ghost in the Shell), Matt Damon (The Great Wall), Tilda Swinton (Doctor Strange) and Emma Stone (Aloha) made Kevin Kwan — the Singapore-born
