 Are Asian women having a moment in Hollywood or is it just Michelle? Yo, we got to talk about it joining us today is Seven-year comedy veteran Kiki Yung from Hong Kong to LA. Yay. What up? Kiki Yung I haven't ever hear somebody pronounce my last name like a Hong Kong way How do people normally say it young or is it young? I'm like just forget it. Just Kiki Right Kiki you're coming from LA originally you're from Hong Kong Yeah, you are the founder of crazy woke Asians show in LA which we're gonna talk about Yeah, you know because we are the founders of Asianology New York City But uh, yeah, we want to talk to you about like Asian women in Hollywood because you're in Hollywood or you're in you know You're in the scene, so I'm Asian and a woman Yeah, so you can you're clearly an expert on this topic such an expert. Tell me ask me any questions Well, make sure you guys like subscribe and turn your notifications check out smaller sauce and smaller sauce calm from search Want to see silly I would say that this outfit is whole TVB Is this a TVB outfit? Oh, man. Is the TV jokes are coming out TVB I actually worked on a movie with them TVB Triumph in the skies, you know that show it was all these North America or TVB Hong Kong I went back to yo real quick funny story before we get into it is that the last time we saw Kiki in person COVID had just started and we were doing a comedy show and COVID was just going around and there was news stories But there wasn't a shut down yet And we were like the last comedy show ever and then it shut down There was a lot of COVID jokes at that time and nobody knew how to laugh in the crowd about right because it was still like People were dying so yeah, it was weird. We couldn't help it. No people didn't know what was going on We didn't we know we didn't set the record straight. We don't eat bats, right? Or we do no We At this point, I'm it doesn't matter What's going on with older Asian women in Hollywood right now? Or is it just Michelle? Yo, I think it's just Michelle Yo, I mean there are some Asian women, but you say older. She's older. Yeah, she's older for sure She's not too old. She looked great. Wait, so we're addressing the fact that Michelle. Yo is in like everything I would say in my opinion. Yeah, but I would say Michelle. Yo is in Four TV series and ten movies a year. Correct me if I'm wrong say I'm wrong. She might be in 15 things a year I'm saying she's working At at a Hong Kong pace, which is very quick if you guys know but in American projects. Yeah. Yeah, that's so amazing I'm so proud. You know, I grew up watching her her Chinese name is young seeking and I watch her She played all these you know like kick-ass Female she has the same last name as you yeah But she just spells it cuz she's from Malaysia they spell it. Yo, yeah, I didn't realize until she won the Oscar. I'm like, oh, yes, yo What do you think that everybody would say if her name was Michelle you're I'll be like, yeah, would they learn how to say it properly like Michelle young Yeah, well be like Tony learn right cuz some people say Tony learn, but that's mostly Asians most I guess not Asians How is it that Michelle yo is in everything does she just embody the perfect Asian mother and she's also a badass She knows like why I'm in a badass as in she knows kung-fu, you know for for for movies And it's like like why is she dish to her to you? What does she embody Kiki? I want to know from a woman's perspective. You're also a mother yourself. Yes, what what is from your perspective? What is it? She's like a superhero from my perspective because like I said watch her since I was like five years old in Hong Kong She could fight she won didn't she win a pageant? Yeah, she won Miss Malaysia Malaysia, right? I mean Mary Dixon poon and then but I guess what what does she represent in America white people love her What role is she filling that like everybody needs? Like she don't have to be perfect. She's like the three-dimensional Asian woman. She's like in everything ever She's just like haggard and tired and she's like progressive too, right? She in the movie She accepts her her daughter is gay, right? So I feel like it's like She can speak English very well too and she can fight so there's that dimension where she's like the laundry lady Then suddenly she's kicking your ass. Yeah I agree with you that her ability to play this like rich old-money mother and crazy rich Asians And like you said this haggard blue-collar woman and then everything almost in between She has a gigantic range of like I guess Asian female archetypes that she authentically pulls off Right. Yeah, she's versatile and she's tall tall or two, you know beautiful. She you know, I don't know I saw her in real life one time. She's not that tall, but her dimensions is Dimensions feels very tall like elegant. Yo, is she is she's still a milf? Well, she's not a milf. She's not a mom Yeah, she's not mom. So she's so secret to be in a milf is never So Michelle yo technically is not a milf. Yeah, even though she's really but she's not a milf That was the most that was the whole point of this video for me. That's what You know, it's like crazy and I'm not trying to be a downer at all right now But it's like in the news. There's just like a lot of older Asian women in there Even RIP to Angela Chow, which was I believe Elaine Chow's younger sister very prominent family But it's just like I don't know. It's like It just feels like it's just a regular part of the news section. It's like a it's a part of what do you mean? Older Asian women news I'm saying it's just Part of the news section. Yeah, it's like the sports, you know lifestyle foods like it's got they care now About the older Asian women well rich and famous. Yes. That's what I meant to say Well, is it logical because for if there's a lot of successful or rich and famous or well-to-do or Notable Asian women Just in every industry then if something happens to them it is news and we'll hear about it's like Wendy dang You know like like if something happens to her we're gonna hear about it. That's gonna be big news You trying to play Wendy dang What are you trying to play Wendy dang and not in the new things that come out the media pieces? Who is Wendy? Not top of my mind. I am a mom to a eight-year-old terrorist. I don't have Time to like who is Wendy dang? Why should I care cuz she's rich? No, you should care because if they make a Like the crazy rich Asians Research I bought the book I auditioned I did the whole thing like yeah when that happens I would do who did you audition for which role did you audition of them the pretty one and the Constance woo thing, you know, they had the whole search how many tears of the audition process Did you make it through? I don't I just put some it they had every but all my friends were and my manager It was like you should dress up and like do the whole so I had the whole like because one of the scenes were where she's like Black tie event when the husband is cheating on her. I was like wow. You really got me to dress up for all this But yeah, oh you went off for Gemma Chan and Constance woo Yeah, and it was self-tape there was millions of tapes on the YouTube. I guess They picked the girl that sing Chinese song to be in the movie it was trying to pick someone's boy I need a yeah, and then the the yellow song You know, that's all she's saying. Yeah, that's who they so let's just talk about Asian women in general though Let's just take it off of Michelle. Yo and like the 70 year old Asian women She's the one dominating shout out to CC loud who was our YouTube mom from our do you know CC in LA? Yeah, I'm done. She played my mom once. Yes Yeah, she's super fun to CC. Yeah, she's the only other Chinese mom that I know of in Hollywood legit that plays a lot of stuff. Anyway She plays cherry colas mom in Good trouble. Yeah, good. Oh, yeah, okay So but I guess like I guess our Asian women Does it is it obvious that they're doing better than Asian men in Hollywood or actually do how do you view it? Because you're like it's the same. It's just Michelle. Yo won the Oscars. So that was like another level, but last oh Didn't he who a Kwan win the supporting actor Oscar? Yeah, yeah, he did and then this year Golden Globes didn't the whole who won the Didn't a bunch of people Asian people win beef. No, they won from beef. Yes, beef Yeah, that's everything everywhere all the months. Yeah, I think and beef swept a lot So I feel like it's pretty even like Ali Wong's doing great. She's older too, but not as old as Michelle Right, right. Um, she's a male. Does it feel like that Hollywood is just rotating like 10 to 15 different Asians for everything Right a little bit, but that's how it goes, right? I feel like at least they're thinking oh, we're giving them a choice a Chance, you know, no putting them out there Rotating the 15 I guess for the people who are outside of that 15 like yourself in LA You go out to a lot of auditions whether that's TV commercial movies or whatever like that Where does that leave you because you're like, well, I'm not part of that 15 That's like getting everything, but I want to be in there or I don't want to be in obviously you want to like I guess what do you think because you you probably with everybody else in the audition room? That's not part of that they're doing self tapes a lot So you don't even see the other people, but I know from the few Asian actresses that I'm friends with they all submit to the same thing It just goes out home to everyone and then probably out of state too. So it's a craft shoot I don't even expect anything these days. I'm just like I'm having fun I'm just filming it for fun because they're gonna they already have a few choices in mind And it's if those people are like no no no then maybe then they'll take a look at the audition table, right? Well, they say they always look at all the audition tapes, but I I respect the casting that They they probably fight for the one favorite that they have but you're still like here So unless you pop off with your comedy special It's like so yeah, I love this to do it Let's talk about some roles that you went out for that you submitted for like what are some of the roles that are floating out there? Aside you you went out for crazy rich Asians. Did you go out for brother's son all these other shows I'm not Taiwanese. Well, I didn't act. I quit acting for like a year So I just started again, but before that I did like a like Hulu Apple Apple had a series It was like a series about immigrant mom and they were like Cantonese or Mandarin Of course, I submit the tape with all speaking. Hello. They hold like all improvising excited They they chose Mandarin like every time they say Cantonese it always ends up to be Mandarin Right. Well, I guess we could talk about that because you're from HK Hong Kong, right and you're like HK HK You're from like British HK. Yeah, British From the British HK my accent to be American nice, but I guess now everything is shifting more towards Mandarin just do to I guess Just market marketability, right? Yeah, and things like that. Where does that leave you because your Mandarin is pretty shaky, right? Yeah, very shaky. I go Google translate Yeah, so I mean is that a limitation in terms of girls you can go out for obviously in the 90s It would have been more canto or HK centric Chinatowns and things like that. Do you do you feel like that is a limitation? Yeah, they always want me to play the Mandarin you speak Mandarin you fluent in Mandarin my agent before always you fluent, right? I'm like Translate And then they make you speak and then once I speak more they'll no matter what I get my Mandarin speaking friends to help me It's still like, you know Is it kind of like my dad saying shit shit Not that bad, but once they give a dialogue you just free flowing improvising in the Where you have to find your own senses Yeah, and then you know why I'm so annoyed when they try to speak Cantonese They always sound so bad and sometimes, you know, there's not even Cantonese. They just watch You know in the movies and the TV sometimes I still see that Yeah, yeah, yeah, Cantonese is we need to bring it back. How do we bring it back? Let's just start speaking Cantonese the rest of this and you guys have to go Google translate what we say Well, I gotta Yeah Did you try to go out for like expats or with Nicole Kidman If I was in Hong Kong, I think I would have done something because I worked in Hong Kong Did you ever think about moving back to HK and I did for a little bit and you were just doing entertainment and comedy in HK I didn't start doing comedy yet when I went back before I had my son That was like eight years ago, but I worked on like I said that TV be series-turned-movie and I worked with Who Wilson Yip he did like a You know those movie yam da wa I worked with the gu tin lock Louis cool Sammy Chung if you pop up the photos I'll know but you know, I know Sammy We went to London and then we they filmed that movie there So I worked on the show's production side and I had like, you know, feature book, but just working my way up there It's tough, you know, it's not well anybody watching if you need somebody to embody British HK Because that is your true Okay, let's build out a character for you right now. Yeah, where in HK are you from which MTR stop? Do you know which MTR table? New territories, that's why I live Hong Kong That place is cool. That's in a way where the real Drama based out of the new territories. Yeah, not Hong Kong Island side who gives an F about Hong Kong Island side That's just all western whatever expats blah blah blah cause way bae. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No take it out to new territories That's where the drama is because those are the new communities No, that's where all the really gully stuff about real real housewives of the new territories Oh, that sounds like a new series. Come on Yeah, and then I have my eight-year-old terrorist and Yeah, when you say terrorist, we got to know like what? Satin the satin Oh, I live there, too I grew up satin and then I moved to New York You know what David's favorite a joke like kanji is the satin Satin Chicken porridge is the bomb. So that's not the same So it comes from Satin I think so that's why I always thought yes That's probably the number one Hong Kong dish that people in America don't know about update your kanto Firmware pack. I think the other one would be the what's it called the coconut chicken hot pot. Oh, yeah, that's another more That's a newer one. I'm not I'm talking about satin guy Joe All right guys, you know what we're gonna wrap up this video But we got another one with Kiki coming out soon. So stay tuned check out her stuff down below Kiki We have to address this Andrew because you started crazy woke Asians I woke up I was brushing my teeth stay woke. I'm like, I'm sick of this all these white people know Asian on the show So I'm like, let me put this together. So you're saying you were literally just listening to childish game Yeah, stay woke. I'm like, so you didn't mean woke as in like politically whoa No, no and I tell them when I go and say I'm not woke I woke up and then they sometimes they expect but back then when I started it it was woke just Asian just standing there talking doing comedy, you know, right? Within the context of that era just the fact that Asians were on stage doing all Asian comedy show was already woke AF But then but then they took your term and they turn, you know Yeah, I don't agree with that. I don't even know what so they appropriated woke from you What the hell? All right guys, no, we got another video with Kiki So stay tuned if you guys like her you like the vibe check her out follow her She's in LA doing comedy and all right until next time we out. Peace