Name: Jimmy O. Yang - “Crazy Rich Asians” and “How to American” | The Daily Show
Uploaded: 2018-08-22T09:47:46.000Z
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-Welcome to the show. -Thanks for having me.

I'm a big fan of yours from Silicon Valley, and now...

-Thank you, thank you. -...now you've got the book

-Can you feel the buzz as well? -I've been feeling it

for the last, like, three weeks when we've been

-(laughter) -Which is... which is amazing.

Each of us hit, like, three different cities,

and the reactions from each city is amazing.

-Right. -You got the really heavy Asian-populated cities,

and I barely saw any Asian people in the audience.

-It's just such a universally fun movie to watch, -Right.

that I'm just so grateful to see everybody enjoying it.

It's funny, because Ronny Chieng, who's on the show,

is also in the movie, and when he came to me

to tell me that, like, they wanted him in the movie,

he, like, really undersold it. He's like, "Hey, man,

"so I might need to leave the show for a few months

"to go do this movie; I think it might be

a little bit big for, like, you know, the Asian community,"

and he thought it like it was gonna be, like,

a little indie movie in the middle of nowhere.

And then I saw this come out, I was like,

we have not seen a Hollywood movie with a full Asian cast.

-That's a pretty big deal. -Since Joy Luck Club.

like, 'cause we didn't know; we intellectualized it.

-Like, we understood it's important. -Right.

It's, uh, you know, statistically, 25 years,

When you got, like, the most beautiful, talented,

-funniest Asian people from all over the world. -Yeah.

-(laughter) -Which sounds amazing, by the way.

-Asian Malaysian. -I'm gonna start calling him

in the office, and I'm gonna get a lawsuit.

-(laughter) -The, uh... the movie is also great.

oftentimes when people talk about diversity,

people always make it seem like it's charity,

Is it true that you also tried to go for the lead,

like, the really good-looking, handsome lead?

when I first got the script, not every day you get a script

that's Crazy Rich Asians  with a full Asian cast,

so I talked to my manager, I picked up the phone,

right away I'm like, "Guys, I know I'm usually the funny guy,

"but let me-- this is an important movie--

let me try out for the leading role." Okay?

And then my manager was like, "Look, Jimmy, I don't know

"how to tell you this properly, but, um...

-Here I am, so, uh... it's okay. -Yeah, but you,

-but you-you crush it in the movie, -Oh, thanks.

-'cause you play, like, a Versace-wearing,

It's awesome to play that guy 'cause you get

'Cause I think, normally, as functional members of society,

you can't just act crazy, but with a character like that,

with billions of dollars and he doesn't care about anything,

he-he lives his life like as if it's lawless.

So it was just so fun and freeing to play somebody like that.

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