Poor Casting for May
Surely they could have got a hot female to play this role. It would fit in well with the movie I think. Instead they have an unattractive person and every scene she was in I was bored to death.
sharePeople have got different taste. Who would you have chosen to play this role then? Big-boobed blonde page3 glamour models? She's just this different type of pretty to maybe what you like.
shareshape doesn't matter although i think she was cute but they truely needed to bring an actress with better performance,she culdn't act at all
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to the person who posted a few posts back about the May character being one of a typical "submissive" asian women stereotype with squeaky accent/voice - you need to get over it. first off, May in no way was portrayed as "submissive", she was shy, yes - not very agressive in her sexuality like the eva mendes character, surely - but is that such a negative thing to try to bring to the screen in a character black, white, brown, purple, or whatever? (there are plenty of "typical asian female stereotypes" the other direction too with the "dragon lady" bulls#@t people try to pin on poor lucy liu - so don't even try to say that's the issue!) - the personality of the character was none other than a sweet, beautiful, nice girl. quit reading into it looking for an excuse to get riled up. oh, also, about her "squeaky" accent and voice - there was nothing "squeaky" about it, to my ears - and as far as the accent goes, it was not an exaggerated or thick one wherein you couldn't understand what she was saying or anything ridiculous like that. it was an acceptable accent for an asian character - because i'm not sure if you know this but for a lot of asian-americans, english was not their first language and therefore some of them DO speak english (usually perfectly grammatically correct english, by the way - which is more than can be said for most american people for whom english is their first language!) with some trace of accent.
shareTotally with you on that one, redmimi22. Nicely put.
shareall you living at home with ya momma b*tches talking about the "May" character are full of sh*t. thats why people like you come on message boards and hate, she is pretty and has a decent figure. hardly any of you talking about her could get someone halfway decent and you talking about some chick that wouldn't even take a second look at you with $100 bills shooting out ya A**.
shareI'm pretty sure they should have cast Hulk Hogan as May, because he has so much acting skill and drawing power that this movie would have instantly won an Academy Award. I don't care if Hulk is a man and has a mustache and a painted on beard and is bald, because Hulk Hogan's acting skill would make the audience forget about all those minor details. I mean just look at his work in Mr. Nanny. When he read that little girl that bedtime story, I broke down in tears because he put so much emotion into his part. Just imagine that emotion being used in this movie. I would have to guarantee it would change the world. It would likely bring about the end of terrorism and nuclear proliferation throughout the world. I must say that the Farelly brothers missed a golden opportunity to end violence in the world by not casting Hulk Hogan to play the part of May in this movie. The world would have been a better place if they had.
sharethis is THE most hilarious post I've ever read in this message board
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Redmimi, it really sounds like you are ignoring the obvious for the sake of being PC. May's character was TOTALLY portrayed as a typically submissive character unable to defend herself, which WAS really in keeping with the sterotype of Asian females (at least in the media).
The deferential tone of voice, rapid speech, nervous laughing at the end of every sentence, and looking at Damon's character for validation everytime she said something. Coupled with her body language which was drawn and reserved.
If you ever go to Japan in particular you'll find MANY girls who act in this very subservient 'lady-like' way, especially with the nervous laughter.
In fact me and my cousins were making fun of her character while watching this film. Why? Because we ARE Oriental females and are nothing like that.
In fact May is typically a geek.
I mean, she spend many years dreaming of damon's character behind her computer... this kind of girls can't be a sex bomb :D Wen Yann Shih is really cute with her shy and embarrased smile, I think this is the best you can find on internet. (except if you pay :D)