“Give My People A Chance”: South Asian Actors Are Sharing How Hollywood Has Drastically Shifted

Brian: It takes other people to define you. And so I think what’s changed is — which is really nice to see — when I came up, it was like, you had to do the accent. I was raising a family, so I did the accent. I mean, I did it the first time. It was written that way and it happened to be Seinfeld and it was hilarious. 

And then it became like, “Oh, this is how I’m seen now”. I think now, these newer generations, younger generations, they’re getting to be full human beings. They happen to be South Asians, but they’re American, or they’re British, or they’re Australian — or they’re whatever they are. 

They just happen to be of a different ethnicity.