Contacted for a response after Swinton published her emails, Cho released a statement saying: “Asian actors should play Asian roles.
The broader debate, Cho wrote, was to do with the “whitewashing” of Asians in American films.
While Cho had characterised their conversation as a “fight”, the tone of the emails, on the surface at least, is more cordial.
I believe my emails stand on their own and should be taken for the spirit in which they were intended.”
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