Lucy Liu

Her new film, Rosemead, is inspired by true events in California's San Gabriel Valley.

It follows Irene, a terminally ill Chinese-American mother, who discovers her teenage son has become fixated on mass shootings and violent fantasies.

As her health declines, she's forced into an impossible moral dilemma.

How far must she go to protect him and the people around him?

Lucy Liu first gained national attention as Ling Wu on Ally McBeal, went on to star in Charlie's Angels and Kill Bill, and later redefined the role of Dr. Watson in the long-running series Elementary.

She also directed episodes of Elementary, Luke Cage, New Amsterdam, Why Women Kill, and American Born Chinese.

Outside of film and television, Lou is a visual artist whose work spans mixed media, collage, and large-scale paintings.

And she's also back in theaters as her character in Kill Bill.

Both volumes were just re-released under the title Kill Bill, The Whole Bloody Affair.

When we last left off, we were discussing her early start in acting.

Being a shy little girl, I mean, describing yourself as shy, how did that girl learn to survive built on rejection?

I guess I didn't even remember that I was shy until I found those report cards that my mother had saved for me.

She gave me this manila envelope.

I think it was during the pandemic.

Yeah, not that long ago.

And I looked at them.

I was sort of shredding all these things and getting rid of all these things that had come from Los Angeles because I had lived there for so long.

And then I looked at them and I was so surprised because that was somebody that I had forgotten.

And in some ways it's kind of sad, you know, that I forgot this little girl that didn't have a voice.

And I also felt like, wow, not just, you know, look how far I've come, but wow, this poor child, you know, she must have felt so completely confused in these classrooms to not be able to even, you