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Lucy Liu

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Lucy Liu

And that really indicated to me that there was some undercurrent to me of, I guess, racial profiling.

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There's this thing that I read that I found so fascinating that, first off, that you spoke up about it.

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You wrote this op-ed for The Washington Post.

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You really laid out those same arguments that you're saying now.

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But you've also talked about how the characters that you've played, some of them have had –

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Names that, you know, are not Asian names.

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Lucy Liu

And you wanted to keep those names because you wanted there to be evidence that these parts weren't written for an Asian woman.

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Talk to me about that idea and why that was important to you.

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I just think it's imperative to know that...

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these roles, although they were not written for someone Asian, that they could be and they should be retained as those names.

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Because it shows that having been cast in that role, it's become something that's more ubiquitous.

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And I think that the, I guess the vision for what people do and how they present their writing or how they present the description of a character does not necessarily have to be that limited.

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And I think that leaving that name in there, to me, shows the history of how things can change.

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and how they have changed, and they can continue to change.

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So for instance, like your role in Charlie's Angels with Alex.

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Yeah, or Lucky Number Slevin.

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Lucy Liu

What was your name in that?