A lead actress in Netflix’s megahit KPop Demon Hunters has deep ties to Texas and the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
Arden Cho, who voices Rumi in the movie, was born in Amarillo to Korean parents in 1985. “I always joke and say that when my parents immigrated to America, my dad was like, ‘I’m gonna go to the biggest state.’ And he chose Texas,” she said in an interview last year.
She and her family later moved to San Antonio followed by Plano, where she spent most of her childhood, she said in another interview.
Earlier this week, she appeared on The Kelly Clarkson Show, where she spoke about her Texas roots. She was “obsessed” with the Dallas Cowboys as a kid, she said, and still is a fan. She also told Clarkson, a fellow Texan, that she has been “such a big part” of her life and that it’s been her dream to meet her.
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But she also shared about what it was like growing up as “maybe the only Asian kid” at school in the ’90s. “At that time,” she said, “I didn’t really know what that meant. It was rarely talked about. Being Asian-American wasn’t like a thing.”
Cho starred in Netflix’s Partner Track and is also known for being in MTV’s Teen Wolf. She booked her role on KPop Demon Hunters after first auditioning for a different character through a voice note, she told Jimmy Fallon this week. She recently won an Astra Film Award for best voiceover performance for her part in the movie, which took home the Golden Globes for best animated feature and best original song on Sunday.
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