it ain't easy being asian in hollywood

With recent roles in high profile movies like Mission: Impossible III, Live Free or Die Hard, there's no doubt that Maggie Q's star is on the rise. However, the quality of those roles, of course, are extremely questionable. So in a recent interview with the Associated Press, the actress let everybody in on a little secret: Maggie Q: Good Hollywood roles rare for Asians.

Tell us something we don't know, Ms. Quigley. She says that 90 percent of the scripts she receives are written for Caucasian female characters... and the ones for Asians, not so great:

"The first part of it is going into a room (for an audition) and trying to quell this stigma that people have about Asians only doing certain kinds of roles and Asians only being looked at a certain way," Quigley said. "You run into these stereotypes a lot."

Before she came to Hollywood, she made a name for herself with a bunch of sexy roles in the Hong Kong film industry. Part of me wonders if she came to this realization before or after she took the role as "Maggie" in that godawful Balls of Fury movie. Surprise! It sucks to be Asian in Hollywood.