Lucy Liu wrote an op-ed for The Washington Post in April 2021 to push back against Teen Vogue for calling her "Kill Bill" villain, the Yakuza leader O-Ren Ishii, a recent example of Hollywood's harmful Dragon Lady Asian stereotype. In an essay titled "Hollywood Played a Role in Hypersexualizing Asian Women," writer India Roby defines the Dragon Lady as "cunning and deceitful" and a character who "uses her sexuality as a powerful tool of manipulation, but often is emotionally and sexually cold and threatens masculinity." Roby then cites O-Ren as a contemporary example. For Liu, calling the O-Ren character a Dragon Lady doesn't make sense when writer-director Quentin Tarantino populated a lot of "Kill Bill" with similarly-minded female assassins. As Liu asked, "'Kill Bill' features three other female professional killers in addition to Ishii. Why not call Uma Thurman, Vivica A. Fox or Daryl Hannah a dragon lady? I can only conclude that it's because they are not Asian. I could have been wearing a tuxedo and a blond wig, but I still would have been labeled a dragon lady because of my ethnicity. If I can't play certain roles because mainstream Americans still see me as Other, and I don't want to be cast only in 'typically Asian' roles because they reinforce stereotypes, I start to feel the walls of the metaphorical box we AAPI women stand in." Liu wrote she "feels fortunate to have moved the needle" for Asian and Asian-American actresses in Hollywood because "Hollywood frequently imagines a more progressive world than our reality."
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