Stepping into Kerry Washington’s void on network television does not go unnoticed by Priyanka Chopra, who became the first-ever South Asian actor to lead a broadcast show in television history with “Quantico,” which debuted in 2015.
Friday, April 27, 2018
Priyanka Chopra: ‘Quanitico’ Represents Women of Color, Immigrants on TV
Stepping into Kerry Washington’s void on network television does not go unnoticed by Priyanka Chopra, who became the first-ever South Asian actor to lead a broadcast show in television history with “Quantico,” which debuted in 2015.
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Priyanka Chopra has been an incredibly important part of representation in Hollywood. Now that Scandal is gone she is the only woman of color leading a show on Network television, and will take on an even bigger role with the void left in Kerry Washington’s wake. We need to see more women of color on TV, but what is unique about Chopra’s role is not only that it is as an FBI agent, which defies the stereotype of women not being able to take a stereotypically masculine job, but it also defies the often hurtful and damaging stereotype of South Asian women. Many people have a stereotype that South Asian women only work as doctors or in technology jobs, so this show breaks that stereotype and shows young girls of color and young south asian women everywhere, that they can be anything that they want to be, and it encourages them to truly break the status quo.
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