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‘When You Get Famous, Are You Gonna Fix Your Teeth?’
Joel Kim Booster opens up about surviving in Hollywood without veneers.
The whole idea of me being hot and centering my own attractiveness was creatively and comedically very interesting five or six years ago, when I think there was less of an understanding about the desirability politics of Asian men. Now that I’m more well-known, and the conversation around desiring Asian men has moved forward a bit, it’s not an interesting avenue to address comedically. Making my teeth conform to objective standards of “straightness” and “whiteness” doesn’t ultimately add up to anything you can hold on to in terms of your self-esteem.
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