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‘Interior Chinatown’ Star Chloe Bennet on Her Theories About That Cliffhanger Ending and Being Told She Doesn’t Look ‘Asian Enough’
'Interior Bennet' star Chloe Bennet
“Charlie is such a brilliant writer — and this is how he is in real life as well — but he is so able to capture these very specific and nuanced feelings about racial identity, even for me being a woman on a TV show,” Bennet tells Variety of “Interior Chinatown,” which explores tropes and archetypes that often relegate Asian characters to the background. As it turns out, Lana is the only character in “Interior Chinatown” who seems to realize that she is playing a new detective on a satirical “Law & Order” show called “Black & White.” Acting as a bridge between those two worlds, Lana, who is herself relegated to a stereotypical role as a side character in “Black & White,” agrees to team up with Willis Wu (Jimmy O’Yang) — the Chinese American man who doesn’t realize that he is the protagonist of his own show-set-within-a-show — to uncover the truth about why his older brother, Jonathan (Chris Pang), mysteriously disappeared after being given a starring role as the stereotypical Kung Fu Guy. In a wide-ranging interview, Bennet opens up about her character’s arc in “Interior Chinatown,” how she has dealt with inevitable scrutiny over her racial identity in real life — and why, following her experience on the show, she’s more determined than ever to tell her own stories.
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