Lucy Liu
Lucy Liu
Lucy Alexis Liu /ˈluː/is an American actress and artist. She became known for playing the role of the vicious and ill-mannered Ling Woo in the television series Ally McBeal, for which she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series. Liu's film work includes starring as one of the heroines in Charlie's Angels, portrayed O-Ren Ishii...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth2 December 1968
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
They were concerned about the racial issue. They thought it was not a safe issue to go Asian, unfortunately.
Working on the Samurai sword is very different because your body position has to be very still. It's a much quieter was of fighting.
Women who wear kimonos, when the fight, they have to keep their knees together, and when they use a sword, they have to move the sleeves otherwise it gets caught.
Since we didn't use guns, we wanted to make sure we could earn the ability to win the audience over by making it believable. A lot of what you do when you work out in that mode is use your mental energy.
Being Asian in this business is something you have to consider, because sometimes people aren't as open. They'll say, I can't see you with a Caucasian person.
When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt.
You have to hope that you don't have to wear a mask and you don't have to put prosthetics on your face to make yourself look believable.
I think it seems like a natural progression to go into directing, and I hope to explore more of it, because it's very exciting and a really good way to collide all the things that you've known and experienced in the business and put them all into one.
The lack of predictability with television is something that's constantly changing what your perception of who you think your character is.
The wonderful thing about film is that you have something that has a beginning, middle, and end, and you have a concrete amount of time to shoot it.
I think diversity is very key to anybody's resume, and also for your mental well-being.
It's great to do commercial movies; they are fun. You're doing stunts, you are running around, there is a lot of money involved in the production; there are incredible sets and designs.