ABSTRACT

This article explores Henry Golding’s transnational stardom as a site of racial ambiguity, with Golding and producers strategically utilising different aspects of his mixed-race identity in his filmography. I distinguish between two stages of Golding’s transnational stardom: the first in his early career as a regional television host, predicated on his ‘Eurasianness’ for a Southeast Asian audience, and the second in his Hollywood stardom, which emphasises his ‘Asianness’ for a global audience. I argue that mixed-race individuals in Southeast Asian media industries represent an ‘Asian Dream’ that Golding embodies. Golding is an asset precisely because he fulfils Western conventions of beauty in his British heritage and supplies an Asian heritage that is simultaneously authentic and exotic, made more valuable by the fact that he is indigenous. This article examines how producers from different regions use Golding’s Eurasian identity to market their films, and how Golding navigates his Eurasian identity in his different projects. Golding’s racial ambiguity allows him to be a uniquely versatile star, relying on his identity alternately as a British, Eurasian, Southeast Asian, Malaysian or Iban man. Golding thus simultaneously belongs to both, and neither, the Western and Eastern worlds, shifting between roles as required.

摘要

本文探讨了亨利·戈尔丁（Henry Golding）作为种族歧义的场所的跨国地位，戈尔丁（Golding）和制片人从他的摄影作品中战略性地利用了他的混血身份的不同方面。我区分了戈尔丁的跨国明星生涯的两个阶段：他在早期职业生涯中担任区域电视节目主持人的第一阶段，是根据他对东南亚观众的“欧亚性”来进行的，而在他的好莱坞明星化中则是第二阶段的，其强调了他对亚洲电视台的“亚洲性”。全球观众。我认为，东南亚媒体行业中的混血人士代表了戈尔丁所体现的“亚洲梦想”。戈尔丁之所以成为一项财富，恰恰是因为他在英国的遗产和提供了既真实又充满异国情调的亚洲遗产，由于他是土著人而变得更加有价值。本文研究了来自不同地区的制片人如何利用戈尔丁的欧亚身份来推销他们的电影，以及戈尔丁如何在他的不同项目中导航他的欧亚身份。戈尔丁的种族歧义使其成为独特的多才多艺的明星，他交替地依赖于他作为英国人，欧亚人，东南亚人，马来西亚人或伊班人的身份。因此，戈尔丁同时属于西方世界和东方世界，两者都不属于两者，并且根据需要在角色之间进行切换。