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I love films that aren't just speaking to certain moments in the culture but are something that people can revisit.

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Public libraries were a huge source of comfort and joy for me when I was growing up. I still spend time there.

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I'm really into ghost towns. I've driven cross-country the past few summers, and I would stop at some ghost towns along the way. They're like a microcosm of America as a whole.

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If anyone has to leave their homeland by boat, they all have difficult stories. But my parents had a difficult journey, and their story always seems like a movie to me.

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In life, we are all more than one thing, but for some reason in movies, you're either this or that. It reduces the complexity of a human being in so many ways.

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That's what I want to continue to do: really odd films, with interesting filmmakers.

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For a good part of my childhood, we were super poor and lived in government housing. I don't characterize the American dream as being successful and having a lot of material wealth to show for it. I did fine without it for a really long time.

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I think that a lot of actors of color have said that it's a wonderful thing to play a role that doesn't have a race and that is kind of open to any sort of interpretation. I completely understand that, but at the same time, I just want Asian characters that are well-written.

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I don't want to put on any gimmicky layers just to give the character more definition. I just want to play good characters. It doesn't matter to me if it's 'open ethnicity' or 'specifically Asian.'

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I grew up around Vietnamese refugees, around people who don't speak English as a first language.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actress

Born: Unknown

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