The new movie Licorice Pizza is facing backlash for scenes in which a white male character speaks with an offensive fake Asian accent.
The film was written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, the eight-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker behind movies like Boogie Nights, There Will Be Blood, The Master, Inherent Vice, and Phantom Thread.
Licorice Pizza is the story of Alana Kane (Alana Haim) and Gary Valentine (Cooper Hoffman) growing up, running around and falling in love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973.
The film tracks the treacherous navigation of first love. Click inside to find out what happens in the controversial scenes… In the movie, Pitch Perfect actor John Michael Higgins plays a restauranteur who owns an establishment with his
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