Kristin Kreuk on Ending ‘Burden of Truth’ and 20 Years of ‘Smallville’

August 13, 2021August 13, 2021 Keith Chow

For the last four seasons, Kristin Kreuk has been playing Joanna Chang on the hit Canadian series Burden of Truth. While the series wrapped its run back in March on the CBC, the show has been playing to American audiences on The CW, a network that Kristin is very familiar with, having played Lana Lang for seven seasons on Smallville.

I got the chance to speak to Kristin about wrapping her show, the importance of representation, and what it’s like to be back on the network she helped launch.

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These Actresses are Not Asian or Pacific Islanders

June 3, 2015June 3, 2021 Keith Chow

Depending on where you stake your claim on the internet, there has been a lot of chatter about a movie that tanked at the box office¹ and another one that isn’t due in theaters for at least another year. The thing that links these seemingly disparate films is that both thought casting white women as characters who are written as Asian American and Pacific Islander was a good idea.

Last night, the director of one of those films — Cameron Crowe — finally broke his silence and offered this explanation for why he cast Emma Stone (Amazing Spider-Man) as a character called Allison Ng:

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NOC Origin: If I Had a Horcrux, it’d Probably be My Terminator Boxset

November 13, 2014November 17, 2014 Christelle G.

So my version of a nerd is a person who passionately and purposefully seeks out the way- more-than-necessary knowledge about a strangely specific subject¹. There are barely-there nerd memories of inventing my own Pokémon with their successive evolved forms, obviously, Toonami afternoons of Dragonball and Dragonball Z, explaining The Adventures of Lois and Clark to my grandmother, and losing my elementary-aged shit when Hercules and Xena had their first crossover.

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More Favorite Asian American Action Figures

December 18, 2013August 12, 2022 Keith Chow

Many years ago, I wrote a few articles for a (now defunct) website called Pop Culture Shock. In fact, the first post I wrote for the PCS team was actually a piece that I had pitched to ToyFare Magazine years before: the five best Asian American action figures on the market.