The latest issue of Net-A-Porter ’s digital mag, The Edit features Elementary star Lucy Liu and all of her fierceness speaking on defying her parents with her career choice, battling Asian stereotypes, love being a “question mark,” and so much more.
Photographed by Mariano Vivanco , the 44-year-old beauty serves up some dramatic elegance in Spring/Summer 2013 selections from Gucci, Maison Martin Margiela, Lanvin , and Hervé Léger chosen by stylist by Tracy Taylor .
Check out photos from the shoot below, along with snippets from her interview.
On not getting her parents’ support to pursue acting:
“They wanted me to have a nine-to-five job with a title…
After their struggle, they just really wanted to see me struggle in a different way, in a more obvious way, maybe something they could understand – she’s at college struggling, but then she will be a banker or a doctor. They understood that.”
On racial stereotypes in Hollywood:
“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 race to 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.
[I had to] push a lot just to get in the room…I can’t say that there is no racism – there’s definitely something there that’s not easy, which makes [an acting career] much more difficult.”
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