My background is in broadcast television - I used to be a travel host for BBC, Discovery, and National Geographic.
I was raised on Hong Kong movies with Asian stars, so I'm still learning about Hollywood underrepresenting certain people.
When you're in a seat getting your hair done, there's this instant trust.
Sometimes life throws you a shortcut. You either take it, or you continue the way you were going.
I've got so much respect for 'Bond.' It's such an iconic cultural behemoth. I love the whole story - Ian Fleming's stories are amazing.
Hollywood had a history of whitewashing and not representing.
I'm super confident in who I am.
Never feeling really at home in any one country is always challenging. You realise that you have to lean on yourself and to own it.
You own your identity; it is important to feel that way.
That freaks me out more than anything, the repercussions of success in this industry.
The one thing that I learned very young was to own my identity. And, I knew, I'm Asian through and through. There's nothing I needed to prove.
I can manage it if I don't make it in Hollywood. I've got nothing to lose, which is the great thing. There's no pressure.
A lot of people say, 'I gotta win my awards.' I just wanna make great movies.
Every one of us at some point in our lives has had the struggle with identity.
I'm half English - and it has been highlighted by people who tell me that I'm not Asian enough.
I would love to be in a Bond movie.
I would love to be in 'Star Wars.'
That leading-man expectation is, sadly, to have all these rippling muscles.
When I watch a movie, I want to be taken away into worlds that are beyond my imagination.
I want to tell amazing stories that inspire, that bring you out of your reality, give you dreams to be bigger and better than yourself. Hopefully, I can be that conduit.
