The show picks up in Chinatown, where Turner and Green are investigating the mysterious disappearance of Older Brother. They head the Impossible Crimes Unit, which takes on the departments most difficult cases. But the role didn’t appeal to Older Brother, so he quit and then left Chinatown altogether, disappearing under mysterious circumstances.īlack and White, the show that Willis acts in, stars Black detective Miles Turner and white detective Karen Green. Willis admired Older Brother growing up-Older Brother earned top marks in school, had top-notch kung fu skills, and played Kung Fu Guy for a short time. Willis’s mom, Dorothy, was cast in roles like Asiatic Seductress and Girl with the Almond Eyes when she was younger, but now she’s just Old Asian Woman. Willis’s dad used to play the coveted role of Sifu, the Mysterious Kung Fu Master, but he’s in his eighties now and is mostly cast as Old Asian Man. His parents, Taiwanese immigrants, have rooms in the SRO too. He lives in the SRO apartments above the Golden Palace restaurant in Chinatown, just barely scraping by. But instead, he’s stuck playing bit parts like Background Oriental Male and Dead Asian Man. Willis has longed to play the role of Kung Fu Guy-the closest an Asian actor can get to being a movie star-his whole life. The narrative intersperses scripted scenes with Willis’s inner musings about identity, performance, and his experience as an Asian man living in a predominantly white society. He laments the one-dimensional, stereotypical roles he’s stuck playing on Black and White, a police procedural show. Interior Chinatown takes the form of a screenplay to follow the story of Willis Wu, an Asian American actor of Taiwanese descent.
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