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The Dallas Morning News Esther Wu column: Straddling cultures, star found his own identity.
Publication: The Dallas Morning News (Dallas, Texas) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News) Publication Date: 09-MAR-06 |
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COPYRIGHT 2006 The Dallas Morning News
Byline: Esther Wu
Mar. 9--Actor B.D. Wong made his Broadway debut in 1988 in David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly.
His performance earned him the Outer Critic's Circle Award, Theatre World Award, Drama Desk Award, Clarence Derwent Award and the Tony -- making Mr. Wong the only actor to have won all five awards for a single role.
But getting to that point wasn't always easy. He recently spoke to students at the University of North Texas about his journey to self-discovery.
For starters, he said he nearly didn't audition for the role of the opera singer in M. Butterfly.
"I was deeply embroiled in this kind of self-denial and self-loathing about being Asian-American at that time," he said.
"I really had a lot...
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