During an appearance on the Pod meets World podcast, actor Stephen Park, who acted in Season 2 and Season 3 of Friends recalled shocking experience when he was on the set.
He shared, "It was at the time, I felt it was kind of a toxic environment. James Hong was the actor who was also on the episode with me, and [the assistant director] was calling him to the set and you know, essentially saying, ‘Where the ***k is the Oriental guy? Get the Oriental guy.'"
Then he continue, "This isn’t the first time that this happened, you know, but this is the environment where this is business as usual in Hollywood in 1997, I guess it was. And nobody felt the need to correct this or say anything about it. So this is normal behavior."