Emma Stone’s character in Aloha is apparently meant to be Asian-American.
Cameron Crowe’s Aloha stars Bradley Cooper as a military contractor who falls for pilot Allison Ng (Stone) while reconnecting with his ex, played by Rachel McAdams.
According to Entertainment Weekly, Stone’s character Ng is meant to be of Chinese-Hawaiian-Swedish descent, and ‘a Hula dancing expert with a functional knowledge of Hawaiian folk guitar who rhapsodizes about the islander spiritual energy mana when she isn’t attempting… Read the full story