Haute Exclusive Look At the Leading Man of Front Cover: James Chen
Without trying to spoil the plot too much for future moviegoers, Front Cover is the story of two wildly different people, one a New York stylist, the other an extremely patriotic and somewhat arrogant actor, falling in love with each other; the twist, both of the leading roles in the film are played by Asian-American male actors. In an industry, that’s been known for white-washing characters (i.e. Scarlett Johansson as Major Motoko Kusanagi in Ghost in the Shell or Tilda Swinton as The Ancient One in Doctor Strange) and a lack of hiring minority actors (a.k.a. #OscarsSoWhite/#NetflixSoWhite), here we have a movie that not only features not one, but two Asian-American male actors as protagonists, but to have them be love interests as well, is simply unheard of and greatly appreciated...
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