'Harold' Star Sets Bar 'High' for Asian Actors

What was your favorite memory of college at Cal-Berkeley?

J.C: One year I lived in an apartment building in north Berkeley and it was filled with the craziest cast of people. We had a guy beneath us who would moan, "I hate myself" throughout the night and we would hear him, all night. We had a woman next door who was thoroughly insane, who would run from me, because she thought I was chasing her.

And you weren't chasing her?

J.C: No, this is my neighbor! We had a guy who would invite us to the Reggae club all the time. He wore a tracksuit, all the time. It was a really good apartment building. It was a really entertaining apartment building.

Have you seen the role of Asian-American men in Hollywood change in the last decade?

J.C: It has and it hasn't. This may be megalomaniacal, but I feel like I can see and track things that come from my roles. My wife has a friend and her husband is an actor. He said that he went to a commercial audition, and the breakdown said "John Cho type", and he's white! We spent two or three years trying to figure that out!

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