In May 2022, James Hong became the 19th Asian-American actor – and the oldest person – to earn a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Recognition for the 93-year-old, who has close to 700 film and television credits, may have long been overdue but the actor remains humble about his achievements.
In July, Netflix released a new Kung Fu Panda series called The Dragon Knight , in which Hong reprises his role as the happy-go-lucky goose. It is a character he cherishes and is happy to be playing “all the way through, from the beginning to what it is now and to the future”. When Hong started working in Hollywood, Asian-Americans were at “ground zero” – heavily typecast, and their roles often demeaning. The only parts Hong was offered were ones that played on his ethnicity.
“A lot of my good friends, who are very good actors, had to quit because right now there are not enough roles to sustain the Asian-American actors as far as livelihood goes.” In 1965, he was one of the nine co-founders of the Asian-American theatre company East West Players, which was committed to raising the visibility of Asian-American actors. That prompted the industry to “notice that we are principal actors”, he says.
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