Chalky White in China

This production is a race experiment, which sets out to investigate how much easier it is being white, and it is also a portrait of contemporary China, directed towards a young target audience. Thomas Skov and Emil Thorup want to be stars in China − without any particular qualities except for being white. An identifiable goal for many in these reality tv times: Imagine becoming a star without being good at anything? They have been told that in China you can walk straight into a business and get all kinds of crazy jobs without any other qualification than being white. This series would like to explode these myths. Episode 7 specially deals with racial difference and homosexuality. In the series there was a turning point, when Thomas and Emil decided to drop the odd jobs they got on their being white only and go for a model career and becoming a pop singer respectively. They realised that it also took talent to become chalky-white successful in China.