The American Who Accidentally Became a Chinese Movie Star - The New York Times
Mitch Moxley
Sometimes he played the foreign friend whose presence onscreen is intended to make the main character seem more worldly dubbed another stock character “the fool,” an arrogant Westerner whose disdain for China is, by the end of the movie, transformed into admiration.
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