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Avatar’s Paul Sun-Hyung Lee wants to geek out with the fans of the future
Paul Sun-Hyung Lee wants to keep the Star Wars fandom alive by passing it on to the next generation.
Lee spent a lot of time in front of the television in his formative years, and while he couldn’t always see people who looked like him and his family, he could lose himself in the fantastical worlds of films like Ghostbusters and Back to the Future. It’s not lost on Lee how much it would have meant for him to regularly see Asian actors portraying dynamic, multifaceted people on-screen, which is part of why he jumped at the opportunity to join Netflix’s new live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender adaptation. When I sat down with Lee recently to talk about his turn as Avatar ’s Iroh, he told me that as excited as he was to land the role, it also came with a feeling of responsibility both to fans and to his fellow cast members — many of whom are much younger, up-and-coming actors — because of how special an experience they were about to embark upon.
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