When I first heard about “Abominable,” the animated movie centered on a modern Chinese family, I opened IMDb.com on my phone to look up the cast. I grimaced at the name of the actress playing the movie’s main character: Chloe Bennet.

I showed my phone to my wife and said, “Can you believe it? Hollywood has done it again. This is a movie about some kids in China rescuing a yeti, and the actor playing the main character isn’t even Asian.”

My wife, also Asian-American, was quick to set the record straight.

“Actually, that’s Chloe Wang,” she said. “She’s pretty cool.” She went on to explain that Wang was the half-Chinese, half-white actress known for being outspoken about Hollywood’s racism toward Asian-Americans. Casting directors had rarely considered her for roles until she started using Bennet (her father’s first name).

My rage immediately melted into embarrassment, then appreciation. In an industry in which we‘re scarcely represented — 3.4 percent of film roles went to Asian-Americans in 2017, according to a Hollywood diversity report by University of California, Los Angeles — here was a big-studio movie with Chinese characters voiced mainly by Asian-Americans , an occurrence as rare as a solar eclipse. The last time I could remember this happening was more than 20 years ago with Disney’s “Mulan.”