Three shootings at Atlanta spas earlier this month (17 March) saw eight people killed, six of whom were Asian women.
Ahn recently told The Washington Post that she had been excited to be cast in The Office until she discovered that she was “just there to be the joke”.
In the episode, Steve Carrell’s character Michael Scott and Ed Helms’ Andy Bernard go to a Benihana restaurant and flirt with two Asian-American waitresses.
“The storyline with myself and the other Asian American actress is that we were the ‘uglier’ version of the actresses at the Benihana.