Lucy Liu
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And that really indicated to me that there was some undercurrent to me of, I guess, racial profiling.
There's this thing that I read that I found so fascinating that, first off, that you spoke up about it.
You really laid out those same arguments that you're saying now.
But you've also talked about how the characters that you've played, some of them have had –
And you wanted to keep those names because you wanted there to be evidence that these parts weren't written for an Asian woman.
Talk to me about that idea and why that was important to you.
these roles, although they were not written for someone Asian, that they could be and they should be retained as those names.
Because it shows that having been cast in that role, it's become something that's more ubiquitous.
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.
And I think that leaving that name in there, to me, shows the history of how things can change.
and how they have changed, and they can continue to change.
So for instance, like your role in Charlie's Angels with Alex.