"Heated RivalryĀ didnāt create Hudson Williams. It just gave the rest of the world a reason to look."
"I found myself watching a young Asian man stand under the Golden Globes lights, completely unguarded, received by white-dominated Hollywood with genuine delight ā and looking like nothing the industry had ever deliberately produced. He hadnāt been media-trained into blandness. He hadnāt distanced himself from the showās fanbase to seem more serious, more Hollywood, more palatable. Heād arrived exactly as he was, from exactly where he came from."
"They didnāt quite know what box to put him in. So they just let him exist.
Which, for an Asian man in Hollywood, is rarer than it sounds."
"Where Hudson Williams goes from here is still being written. The scripts are piling up. The agency is CAA now, not The Old Spaghetti Factory. He has walked runways in Milan, attended the Met Gala, wielded the Olympic torch. The world that didnāt know his name two years ago canāt seem to stop saying it."
Hudson Williams and the accidental reinvention of the Asian male lead
One of the best pieces on Hudson Williams that I've ever read. Insightful, well-written, intelligent.
