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This is certainly a trope to be conscious of. https://twitter.com/FaatiTheStreet/status/1302297317656219649">https://twitter.com/FaatiTheS...
I do find it interesting however, and total credit to Karen Fukuhara, but her ASL character in the Boys is a multi-dimensional rich and complicated portrait next to what she was given to do as Katana in Suicide Squad.
It shows how there& #39;s so much more to character and performance than just dialogue, and it& #39;s a testament to the quality work Fukuhara does on The Boys, but whether or not her character and performance is good doesn& #39;t negate that "the silent ethnic woman" is totally a trope.
I remember Daniel Kwan of The Daniels who directed (and starred in) the Turn Down For What music video talked about how one thing that interested them was being able to show an Asian man displaying aggressive sexuality, because Asian men just aren& #39;t allowed to do that in media.
I know it& #39;s personally made me think a lot about what culturally people of different ethnic and gendered backgrounds are allowed to display on screen, and it seems to me that there& #39;s fertile ground to be both subversive and progressive by directly playing against that.
But before you can subvert tropes, you need to identify them.
