"A lot of the arguments I get in private are that we didn't find any who were good. Now, I have a very specific argument for that, which is that, let's say I said to you, hey you have a job interview tomorrow that'll change your life, you're going to be a little nervous, right?

What if I said to you you have a job that'll change your life interview tomorrow but you'll have one every day for the next five years. You'll have opportunity to do that, you're going to be a little less nervous.

And to be a good actor, pretty much requires you to be relaxed, and not nervous so that you can see the character instead of a jittery actor. So Asian actors get so few opportunities to practice their craft in a charged setting as an audition or a screen test that the white actor who gets to do these million-dollar job interview every day of his life is going t be more relaxed and do better.

You can stick the most talented and amazing Asian actor into an audition room and if he knows this is the only chance he's going to get for 3 years, it's going to be pretty hard to not be nervous. Practicing in these circumstances are important.

I honestly don't think I would have gotten Fresh Off the Boat if I had thought when I auditioned I had any chance. And that freed me, so that when I tested, I was like there's no way to get this, and I was so relaxed, and I was able to give a really good performance. So, to those executives who say they can't find talent, that is again the systemic issues that keep Asians and minorities down."