Arden Cho is the last person you’d expect to have spent her childhood wanting to disappear, given that she’s now the star of one of the biggest Netflix hits of all time.

But the K-Pop Demon Hunters actress says she grew up wishing for blue eyes and blonde hair.

‘I hated that I looked Asian,’ she says bluntly. Raised in Texas as the eldest daughter of Korean immigrants, Cho spent her early years feeling like the wrong answer to the question of what American beauty was supposed to be.

Speaking on the BBC World Service’s Global Women series, she explained that she felt American but was constantly treated as though she didn’t belong.

So when Cho first read the script for K-Pop Demon Hunters, the animated Netflix smash about a girl band saving the world, something clicked.

Her char

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