friends Guest Stephen Park Calling the exhibition to create a toxic environment claimed as he and others bear the name of racism and more.

During March 3, an episode of “Pod meets the world”, “ Daniel Fishil Park asked about an open letter issued in 1999, following up A “disappointing” time in the group From the “very huge” comic play.

“I wrote at the time of her time to show a brave mission incredibly for Hollywood about the situation, power and racism in Hollywood about the difficulties she faced to find work as an Asian actor – especially the work that I felt was proud of.” “Can you tell us what are the effects of that message at that time?”

The park immediately Bee friends As the presentationAdding, “It was at the time, I felt it was a kind of toxic environment. James Hong The actor who was also in the episode was with me, and [the assistant director] Was he inviting him to the group and you knew mainly, saying, “Where F -K is the eastern man? Get the eastern man.”

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He continued: “This is not the first time that this happens, as you know, but this is the environment in which this work is as usual in Hollywood in 1997, I think it was. No one felt the need to correct this or say anything about it. So this is the natural behavior.”

Park, from She appeared in two episodes of friends In 1997, he tried to contact the screen representatives union, which led to the writing of a “important statement” that sent it to a publication. Park made several interviews but none of them was published at that time.

“I became so aware and angry that I was looking at everything through the sweat lens,” he pointed out. I felt that there was no freedom. I did not feel any freedom. So, I had no idea what I was going to do, but I just decided to leak. I told everyone, “I no longer act.”

Park led to a return to acting. In the end, he “slowly climbing to work”. Since his return, Park appeared in The boy meets the world, law and order, Bruce project. and Crazy about you.

garden Not the only guest star To talk about the lack of display of diversity. Adam Goldberg I previously dealt with criticism regarding friends“To a large extent, all white throws.

“In terms of diversity, looking back, it seems crazy,” he said. Independent In September 2024. “I heard that blacks were talking about this and it is like, you never expected to see yourself, so when you did not, it was not a surprise, and you ended up knowing the characters, regardless of their race.”

Goldberg said that the lack of diversity on the TV was “Al Qaeda” at that time, adding: “I spent a lot of my career in a complaint about how the Italians played for Jews. Do you see [Robert] De Niro plays for Jews, but you rarely see a well -known Jewish person who plays the role of Italian. This is where my head was. “

He added: “Or I will get comments about not being all of America enough, and this, as you know, if you will say that to someone, it is likely to be expelled. Or perhaps not, because all of America has become such a term mockery.

David Shuimer, Meanwhile, it revealed to Guardian In January 2020, he carried a campaign for years for Russians so far [color]” before Aisha TylerA character was presented, but he faced a violent reaction to photograph “fully black friends or Asian friends.

Actress Erika Alexander Calling Shaimer’s comments, and writing via X at the time, “Hello @davidschwimmer -friendstv – Ro tells me seriously that you have never heard about #livingsingle? We invented the template! You welcome my brother.”

In response, Shuimer I issued a lengthy apologySaying: “If my quotation is removed from the context, it is hardly in my control. I assure you that I do not mean to disrespect.”