Discover Proudly Amplifies Diverse Voices
Even after over 30 years in front of the camera, actor Lucy Liu shared that she was scared no one would attend her fireside chat with Daniel Dae Kim, hosted at the Sunrise House during the 40th Sundance Film Festival. But she showed up to a packed house hosted by the Sunrise Collective, the line of people barred entry wrapping down the block. Starring in a psychological thriller directed by Steven Soderbergh, Liu graced the Sundance Film Festival crowd with her wisdom and honesty while chatting about the film, her approach to acting, and more.
Not that she needs an introduction, but Liu is known for her roles in the Charlie’s Angels films, “Kill Bill Vol. 1,” CBS’s Sherlock Holmes television series “Elementary,” and for directing an episode of Disney+’s “American Born Chinese.”
Lucy Liu: Actor, Director, Humanitarian, and a Person in Progress
In the no-holds-bar conversation, she reflected about being a child just shy of 5 who didn’t speak English when starting school. “I felt like I was always behind. I was missing the communication, which is such an important thing to connect [with].”
The shyness and introversion is something that Liu holds even as an adult, admitting that for public outings and community events, she really has to “pump herself up because it is so scary.” She shares that the push from the desire to connect and the pull of her introversion allows the entertainment industry to be a form of escapism, and that for her, she measures change in increments rather than dramatic transformations.
Calling herself “a person in progress,” Liu said “the quietest voice is the one that we need to listen to.” When you are starting out on a new project or a train of thought, she says, it is like discovery, but then at some point, it feels like you are back to square one, which can be a neutral space, and then you move forward again.
Kim noted that Liu’s progression from actor to…
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