With non-white heroes, there's an unfortunate tendency for any and all powers/shticks/costumes to be tied directly into their ethnicity, and they tend to be first- or second-generation Americans because it's so obvious they're FOREIGN, you know? :/Īnd then there was Nico. Semi-related: that was one of the things I really liked about Nico Minoru's character (from Runaways she's the Asian girl with the sea-urchin hair in my icon)-she wasn't 'all Japanese, all the time'. I tried to Google some stills of her but all I get are model-poses and some bland "look how pretty our female lead is" stills. And while I cringe somewhat at the use of the "exotic" criteria, she has proven herself quite the ass kicker on screen.ĭid she get a bad wardrobe then? Now I'm curious. Thoughts? Unlike some other casting *cough* StreetFighterLedgendofChunLee*cough* where they hire a mixed race actress who reads as white, Maggie Q has always visually identified as Asian to me. The pending hire of Maggie Q in "Nikita," from WBTV and McG's Wonderland, would mark the highest-profile series role for an Asian actress on a broadcast drama series and the highest-profile CW minority casting in the network's four-year history. The CW pilot's premise of a new Nikita being trained to replace the original one after she goes rogue gave creator Craig Silverstein an opportunity to break the stereotype, and he wrote the lead as "beautiful and exotic." Maggie Q is a half Vietnamese, half white actress from Hawaii and has worked both in the Hollywood and Hong Kong movie industry for some time. Just out today, SciFi Wire is reporting that Maggie Q has been cast as the lead in the CW's reboot of the La Femme Nikita franchise.
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