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Around the Horn: Han vs Han Revisited

  • November 21, 2011 9:46 am

ANDERSON: Offender Sung recently blogged about the “Other” Han, in the show 2 BROKE GIRLS, and how this stereotypical caricature of a character is step back for Asian Americans in mainstream media. Many people have derided Matthew Moy, the actor who plays Han on the show, for his Oriental, foreigner accent, and have practically asked for his head on a stick. But after doing more research on the guy, I realized that I’ve seen him before in other shows, and you know what? He’s pretty damn funny! Check out his acting reel below:YouTube Preview ImageSee, guys like Sung, and John Cho, Roger Fan, Daniel Dae Kim, Daniel Henney, etc, these are the leading man good looking types. Matthew Moy, on the hand, is a character actor.  Moy is pretty funny. And because of his stature, he plays a certain type of character. He kind of reminds me of Mickey Rooney, another small guy. From the comments section in Sung’s blog, as well as other reactions on the Internet, many people make fun of his size. He’s a tiny guy and perhaps it’s his stature alone that Asian American males, take offense with, more so than his foreign accent and the fact that his character of Han “wants to be so hip?” So can we give this guy a break or should we break out the pillory? Let’s see what the other Offenders have to say…

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Actor Rejections

  • February 28, 2010 11:14 am

Good choice? Bad choice?

“Thank you.”

That’s how you know you’re being rejected at an acting audition.  Whether you’re performing a monologue or cold-reading a side or reading commercial copy, that quick ‘thank you, please move on with you life because I’m moving on with mine’ is the kiss of death.  Sometimes, it’s better to hear flat out silence after an audition because it means you made them stop and think.  Or in any case, stop.  Read more...