Editor’s Note: Brian Tee has become a notable face of Asian Hollywood, providing representation to a community that has been wildly been underrepresented and, on more than one occasion, misrepresented.
He has appeared in big banner films such as The Wolverine, Jurassic World, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, and The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift.
He also appeared in numerous TV series and is best known for his current role as Dr. Ethan Choi on NBC’s Chicago Med. In a guest column for Deadline, Tee unpacks the the surge of racism and hate crimes against Asians since the beginning of the pandemic, the “model minority” myth and the dire need for unity in a time when the Asian community — and the world — needs it the most.T
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