When You Have Something That Close To

It Was Probably Very Difficult To Go From Chinese And Then Suddenly Go To Kindergarten And Start Speaking English; It's Very Hard To Transition Back And Forth When You Are In That Pivotal Age. It's Also Hard To Transition Back, But If I Was Immersed In The Country For A Given Amount Of Time, You Are Surrounded By It, Everyone Is Speaking, You Are Learning New Things, You Are Practicing All The Time.

The Neck Is Kind Of What's Sexy In Japan, So You Have To Have The Kimono A Little Bit Back. It Was Just A Whole Different Way Of Appealing To What Was Sexy.

I Wish People Wouldn't Just See Me As The Asian Girl Who Beats Everyone Up, Or The Asian Girl With No Emotion. People See Julia Roberts Or Sandra Bullock In A Romantic Comedy, But Not Me. You Add Raceto It, And It Became, 'well, She's Too Asian', Or, ‘she's Too American’. I Kind Of Got Pushed Out Of Both Categories. It's A Very Strange Place To Be. You're Not Asian Enough And Then You're Not American Enough, So It Gets Really Frustrating.

When You Have Something That Close To You, You Want To Make Sure That You're Aware Of It.

Once You Embody The Language, The Character Comes Really Naturally, Especially When You Put The Costume On.