Hollywood actor Simu Liu didn’t like being in comparison with an Asian fan throughout a “celebrity look-a-like” phase on the NBA’s Celebrity All-Star recreation on Friday night time.
“I had a great time but this wasn’t cool,” the Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings star, 33, tweeted in response to a side-by-side picture of him and the fan displayed on a jumbotron, Page Six reviews.
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People on social media had been additionally fast to criticise the look-a-like alternative.
“‘Let’s pick random Asian dude’ smdh,” tweeted one fan, whereas one other wrote, “This is so bad in many ways.”
A 3rd defined why the shoutout was problematic, noting, “The issue here is that they have no similar characteristics other than being Asian.
“Usually when they do this bit, there’s SOMETHING to connect. Haircut, beard, build, something. This is literally just playing into the ‘all Asians look alike’ stereotype.”
After the backlash began to mount, Liu once more took to Twitter to make clear his preliminary tweet, inserting the blame on the digicam individual and never the NBA.
“To be perfectly clear the entire org and ops team surrounding all-star have been nothing but absolutely stellar to myself and all my friends,” the One True Loves actor tweeted.
“This was just one person with a camera. and no disrespect to my man in the videotron either! he’s gorgeous we just don’t look alike.”
On Saturday (AEDT), Liu and Team Dwyane (Wade) took dwelling the victory towards Ryan Smith’s star-studded staff.
This article initially appeared in Page Six and was reproduced with permission.
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