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Lucy Liu Reflects On Her Career As An Asian-American Actress
Actress, director, and visual artist Lucy Liu wrote a piece for the Washington Post reflecting on the highlights of her career as an Asian-American actress, the characters she played, and discusses some of the struggles that Asian-Americans have faced historically. In summary:
- Growing up the only Asian faces she saw on TV were Jack Soo from “Barney Miller,” George Takei in “Star Trek”, and actress Anne Miyamoto from the Calgon fabric softener commercial
- Says when she was a kid she and her friends would play and pretend they were Charlie s Angels and that she never dreamed she d eventually be an Angel in a film
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Lucy Liu believes there s a lot more work to do when it comes to Asian representation in Hollywood. In an op-ed for
The Washington Post, the 52-year-old actress reflects on the impact of her role of Alex Munday in
Charlie s Angels and shares what more needs to be done.
Liu begins her essay by recalling her childhood, writing, When I was growing up, no one on television, in movies, or on magazine covers looked like me or my family. The exceptions, Liu notes, were Jack Soo, George Takei and commercial star Anne Miyamoto, whom she considered a hero.
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