Mickey Rooney – Mr. Yunioshi (Breakfast at Tiffany’s)
Who do you think would be the best option to play an Asian-American character? Probably someone from Brooklyn, right?
Wrong. This portrayal by Mickey Rooney is one of the lone flaws in the instant classic Breakfast at Tiffany’s. They made this character an extremely stereotypical Asian, which would have maybe been okay had they given the role to one.
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