Fireside chat with Lucy Liu and Daniel Dae Kim about life, work, family and the future
Imagine having a cup of tea with Lucy Liu. What would you talk about?
In the snowy mountains of Park City, Utah, Cold Tea Collective watched an intimate fireside chat between Lucy Liu and Daniel Dae Kim at the 40th annual Sundance Film Festival.
The event was hosted by Sunrise Collective, a collaborative effort to celebrate and bring together the AANHPI community with partners Gold House, The Asian American Foundation (TAAF) and 3AD, Daniel Dae Kim’s production company.
The room was at maximum capacity with a mostly AANHPI audience. Throughout the three days of programming, Kim led intimate fireside chats with Lucy Liu and Steven Yeun.
Although their careers have followed different paths, all three of these creatives shared about how they’re moving forward from their past successes, challenges, and how family drives them.
See more: Shining moments from the 40th annual Sundance Film Festival for AANHPI filmmakers and creative community
Lucy Liu: Household name and enduring the long game
As a child of the late 80s, I grew up watching Lucy Liu on screen through a variety of roles in Ally McBeal, Charlie’s Angels, Shanghai Noon, Kill Bill, and more. While I of course was familiar with her work, I didn’t understand at such a young age how hard she worked to get these roles; I didn’t understand how important it was to see a Chinese American woman on screen in roles that didn’t have to be Asian.
To be the “Watson” to “Sherlock” in Elementary from 2012-2019. To have been the first Asian American person to host SNL at the turn of the new millennium (aka “Y2K” for those of you who are old enough to know what that means). To be a feature story of a major magazine to still be asked about your success only in association with non-Asian people you worked with (in a since-edited story crafted by a seemingly…
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