A lack of Asian-American characters has long plagued the series, but Ben Wang’s casting in Karate Kid: Legends shows how times have changed
It did not occur to Ben Wang right away that in taking on Karate Kid: Legends, he would be the franchise’s first Asian-American “Kid”. And that gives him a lot of optimism.
“At first I didn’t even think about that,” Wang says. “That feels like a very cool and actually privileged position that I get to be in.”
His casting happened, he says, in “a world where that’s normal enough”.
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