Josh, who is shown to be an aspiring candle maker, displays a kind heart, and many soft and loveable attributes of a desirable and handsome partner. In an interview with POPSUGAR, Jimmy Yang disclosed that, “This role wasn’t written to be a particular ethnicity.” Love Hard clearly subscribes to that notion as the movie did not emphasize any Asian stereotypes and in fact depicted the Lin family in a very normalized and comforting way. The movie displays a diversity of Asian characters with different personalities, hobbies, and physical attractiveness, showing that Asian people and Asian roles are real people not tied down to stereotypes.
However, Love Hard pleasantly subverted my original negative expectations. The premise of the movie centers around Josh “ catfishing ” Nina Dobrev’s character, Natalie, by using the picture of a conventionally attractive male on a dating app. From the trailer, Jimmy Yang’s character, Josh Lin, is depicted as an “unattractive” male, further pushing the Orientalist view of desexualizing and feminizing Asian men.
Amid all the large steps forward in Asian representation in recent years with Crazy Rich Asians, Parasite, Minari, Shang-Chi, and Eternals, Hollywood is beginning to break the bamboo ceiling of Orientalist views in mainstream media.Īt first glance, the movie almost seems like a step back in Asian representation in Hollywood. The movie premiered with an all-star cast, most notably comedian Jimmy Yang and The Vampire Diaries’ Nina Dobrev as the two romantic leads. CADY ABE WRITES - In preparation of the Holiday season, Netflix released the new Christmas movie, Love Hard, on November 5th, 2021.
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