"“Last year, I got a script for a pilot script for a show that I really loved, but it shot in Canada and I was so scared because I'm so vocal about hating ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] and hating this administration. It was Heated Rivalry. Isn't that horrible? Because I love [creator] Jacob Tierney, also,” she"
"“I was like, 'I will get detained at the border and I will be put in ICE detention if I go,' and I was struggling over it,” she said. “I had to talk to all these people about it, and I was super upset, and I said, 'No.'”"
"“I watch it, and I'm like, 'That's my child,'” she said. “Like Hudson is my child!” she said, adding, “It kills me. Like, it kills me, and it's all because of Trump.”"
"“Of course, the woman who played the part did a great job, and she's wonderful and iconic, and everybody in it is... It came out so perfectly,” she said. “The role of Yuna Hollander was ultimately played by Taiwanese-American”"
Margaret Cho said she turned down an opportunity to appear in the gay romantic sports drama Heated Rivalry. She worried that traveling to Canada for filming could lead to U.S. federal immigration officers harassing her because of her many social media posts criticizing ICE and the current U.S. presidential administration. She said she would have played Yuna Hollander, the supportive mother of the closeted pro-hockey-playing protagonist Shane Hollander. Cho explained that she considered the risk of being detained at the border and placed into ICE detention, and she ultimately decided to decline. She later watched the series and hosted watching parties, describing the cast and outcome as perfect while expressing that the decision was driven by political circumstances.
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