Keiko Agena's Lane Kim wasn't exactly one-dimensional. She had a complicated family life, several love interests and an encyclopedic knowledge of music, from ABBA to Zappa.
But in certain ways — some that have come into sharper focus in recent years, as the film and television industry holds a larger lens up to representation and diversity -- Lane, best friend to Alexis Bledel's Rory Gilmore, was pigeonholed, characterized by certain racial and religious cues that limited her from ever being a fully realized character.«She did everything for everybody else,» Agena reflected during ET's recent panel discussion, «A Conversation of Culture: AAPI.» «She was very subservient to her mom, and she became a wife and a mother very early, and she was.
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