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John Cho talking about Harold & Kumar on The Queen Latifah Show
I think the thing that was supposed to be the weakness of the movie, which is a Korean guy and an Indian guy as the leads, turned out to be what made it memorable and what made people dig it.
And I think-
[applause]
Hey, thanks.
The characters were underdogs and so were the actors.
I think that maybe people like that about the movie and like rooting for the underdogs.
so sad that historically speaking, the tos star trek movies were created largely by the actors (leonard nimoy being the driving force, miss u bestie) and same with the next generation star trek movies . . . @ paramount please let chris pine write the campy star trek 4 movie that he’s been itching and dying to write i just know that english major has got it in him
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