![]() There was something about this pairing that would seem very old-fashioned, and then something about it to gay men that would be radical." Cho also said that it was very hard to find an East Asian actor in Dubai (where they were shooting) who would agree to play a gay man: "We had a guy and then his parents really objected. I wanted that relationship to feel super familiar, you know what I'm saying? I didn't want to push the difference envelope I just wanted it to be very, very traditional looking. There was talk of, 'Should he have a human husband?' So it went that far. I don't know if that hit or not, but it was something that I felt in my gut and asked for that. I thought that would be the most normal thing, that there was zero shame in the future. So I wanted it to seem really normal in the future. This is probably more so for my generation than for yours, but I felt like those guys didn't date Asian men because of that cultural shame. This may be presumptuous, but I always felt the Asian gay men that I knew had much heavier cultural-shame issues. In a July 2016 interview in New York magazine, John Cho said that it was important to him for Sulu's husband, Ben, to be Asian also: "Early on I said to Justin Lin, 'Dude, it would be important to me to have an Asian husband.' Basically, it was a little Valentine to the gay Asian friends that I grew up with.
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