John Cho voices Long in the English release of "Wish Dragon," and he got his first big break in the gross-out comedy boom of the '90s and '00s. One of his first important roles was, as dumb as this sounds, "MILF Guy #2" in "American Pie." That scene popularized the idea of a MILF in the global consciousness. Linguists and New York magazine credit Cho's scene with making the term famous.
Cho further solidified his big-budget comedy bona fides by starring in "Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle," where he played Harold Lee, a stoner with his life pretty together — at least, compared to his best friend Kumar Patel (Kal Penn). Harold and Kumar somehow turn the quotidian task of getting burgers into a sprawling road movie that broke stereotypes for Asian Americans in film and also revived the career of Neil Patrick Harris. "You sense playing the characters Harold and Kumar was a cathartic experience for a jaded Cho and Penn, who could both finally stretch beyond a caricature of an Asian person, and not miss out on a lead role to Sean William f***ng Scott," wrote Thomas Hobbs for Nylon.
