Yes, Hollywood is racist against Chinese, says actor Chloe Bennet, who couldn’t find work as Chloe Wang
The Agents of SHIELD actor, who is half Chinese, says her original name made Hollywood ‘uncomfortable’
The row over whitewashing in Hollywood has taken a new turn after the actor Chloe Bennet said she had changed her name from Chloe Wang because Hollywood is “racist” and would not cast her in roles because of her Chinese surname.
Bennet, who stars in Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD, said her original surname made Hollywood “uncomfortable”.
Earlier this week the British actor Ed Skrein pulled out of his role in a forthcoming film reboot of Hellboy because the character he was playing has Asian heritage.
It means I had to pay my rent, and Hollywood is racist and wouldn’t cast me with a last name that made them uncomfortable
“Changing my last name doesn’t change the fact that my blood is half-Chinese, that I lived in China, speak Putonghua, or that I was culturally raised both American and Chinese,” she wrote.