Bowen Yang, Mindy Kaling, Blackpink, Olivia Rodrigo and More Honored on Gold House’s 2022 A100 List
variety.comJazz Tangcay Artisans EditorMindy Kaling, Simu Liu, HoYeon Jung, Blackpink, Olivia Rodrigo and more are among those honored on Gold House’s 2022 most impactful Asians A100 list.The A100 List honors trailblazers who are at the forefront of what the organization calls the “new gold age.” The honorees are selected across industry categories, and for the first time ever, Gold House will celebrate these honorees in-person and announce several new initiatives at the inaugural Gold Gala on May 21 in downtown Los Angeles.Theresa Kang-Lowe, “Pachinko” executive producer and founder/CEO of Blue Marble Pictures and Blue Marble Management, shared a statement with Variety in response to being named. “It’s a great honor to see our names on this list alongside so many visionaries in the Asian and AAPI community, each of whom are collectively shifting the culture at large forward through their extraordinary work.
Visibility for our community is more vital than ever, and it’s extraordinary too to see Hollywood starting to realize what we already knew: that there’s a real hunger amongst audiences both in the U.S.
and globally for more Asian stories, more Asian talent. It has been such a gift to see our show ‘Pachinko,’ a multi-language, decades-spanning epic focused squarely on the AAPI immigrant experience, embraced by critics and audiences around the world; and I look forward to continuing to shine a light on these kinds of narratives for many years to come.” “Saturday Night Live’s” Bowen Yang said, “Year after year, I’m awestruck by the collective accomplishments of APIs in different industries.
It’s a tremendous honor for Gold House to recognize me as a small part of that.”The list also honors the careers of three legends — Dwayne.
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