Wednesday, July 27, 2011

10 List: Playing against type







There are a surprising number of non-Asian actors
who have been mysteriously cast as Asian.








Katherine Hepburn, Dragon Seed (1944)



Marlon Brando, Teahouse of the August Moon (1956)



Mickey Rooney, Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)



John Wayne, The Conqueror (1956)


Paul Muni, The Good Earth (1937)
Sidney Toler, Charlie Chan in Honolulu (1938)
Alec Guinness, A Majority of One (1961)
Linda Hunt, The Year of Living Dangerously (1983)
Joel Grey, Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985)
Rob Schneider, I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry (2007)



2 comments:

Kimparklee said...

I vote for Mickey Rooney at Breakfast at Tiffany's as the worst. BTW, you missed Sean Connery in You only Live Twice, as a Japanese man.

Susan said...

Yes, but Connery was playing Bond pretending to be Japanese in order to spy on Blofeld's volcano headquarters. 6ft. and swarthy and oh that pesky brogue...