""I think it's probably because it was a lot of trauma of not feeling like you belonged, or wanting to seem like everything was perfectly normal and not looking like everybody else," she says. The child of Chinese immigrants, Liu grew up in Queens where she spoke Mandarin at home and didn't learn English until she was 5. She remembers seeing only white actors on TV shows like I Dream of Jeannie and The Brady Bunch."
"In Rosemead, Liu stars as a terminally ill woman grappling with her teenage son's escalating mental health crisis and the impossible choices she faces to help him. Liu says, the movie, which is based on a true story, offered the chance to "humanize this woman and her son and to really talk about what happened behind closed doors.""
""I know for myself, there's a lot of cultural stigma and there's a lot of fear about being seen in a true light, thinking that it would be judged or I guess you'll be shunned from the community," she says. "And I think that there's something about exposing that in a positive way that might help spark conversation for not just the AANHPI community, but for so many other cultures.""
Lucy Liu recalls forgetting much of her childhood, attributing it to trauma from not feeling like she belonged and wanting to appear normal. She grew up in Queens as the child of Chinese immigrants, speaking Mandarin at home and learning English at age five, and initially saw only white actors on television until an ad with an Asian actor opened the possibility of an acting career. Liu built a successful career in TV and film. In Rosemead she plays a terminally ill mother facing her teenage son's worsening mental health, aiming to humanize their experience, confront cultural stigma, and spark cross-cultural conversation while reconnecting with Mandarin.
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