That is, until a case of road rage threatens to derail her picture-perfect American dream.
His neighbors describe him as gentle and put together."
And all I can say is, thank God Lee didn’t follow through with that original vision.
Ali Wong as Amy in Netflix’sBeef
It’s more that…I’ve seen that film before.
And that TV series.
And that biopic inspired by a real-life figure whose documentary series on HBO won an Emmy.
Steven Yeun as Danny and Ali Wong as Amy
The white guy in cashmere is, for lack of a better word, tired.
To that end, so is the white-woman-who-cracks trope.
Throw a white guy in the mix, and the story loses this dynamic portrayal of the WOC experience.
Ali Wong as Amy and Maria Bello as Jordan
It loses that extra inch of depth.
The perpetual smile, the soft-spoken voice, the unflinching mask in the face of casual racism.
These are the kinds of subtleties we get only when the lead is Asian American.
I am 30 years old, and I’ve never seen her angry.
What catharsis to watch an Asian woman simply explode.
In Hollywood, the white man is the default.
But no white man could do what Ali Wong did with Amy Lau.
And that’s just a fact.
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