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The actress who played her on screen was blonde and emphatically not Korean.
Her parents wept in the theater. Some Asian-American interest group tried to start a boycott. Web journalism almost cared before predictably getting distracted with clickbait about "12 Ways to Dress Like a Government Employee", pitting movie screencaps against NASA employee file photos.
Mindy had been warned while the movie was in production, but then Ares 5 had a scare with a MAV engine test on Sol 6 and the rest of SatCon mainlined coffee for the rest of that mission. The sugar crash afterwards took out everything nonessential except the memory of reciting love sonnets about the queso at Torchy's to some JPL physicist.
She did update her calendar, though, and remembered to fire several kicked puppy look at the director when she was introduced to him before the NASA promotional junket for the stupid movie. He didn't even try to look sheepish.