An open letter to Aladdin’s Mena Massoud: Slow your roll

Paul Hsiao
6 min readDec 10, 2019

Dear Mena,

I can understand the frustration of not being able to get “a single audition” after starring as the lead in Aladdin, which crossed the billion-dollar mark earlier this year. It’s frustrating, especially when your co-lead Naomi Scott followed up Aladdin with another franchise movie later in the year. However, I think venting in such a public way, especially

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Paul Hsiao

Economist. Film Lover. Squash Player | Currently in New York.