Lucy Liu Is the Least-Bothered Person You Know “I’m not here to change somebody’s mind.”
There’s a thrumming neuroticism particular to the New York celebrity that Lucy Liu, frankly, lacks. It’s astonishing. Not only does she freely take subways and buses, (“They’re there for a reason,” she says in that tone reserved for locals exhorting the use of the MTA), she moved back to the city after a decade in Los Angeles to have a kid here. By herself. When Liu invites me into her personal space, she forewarns me that the airy Manhattan studio where she works as a multidisciplinary artist (sculpture, mixed media, painting) is “nothing fancy.” “We just moved in,” she explains of the boxes, ushering me through and taking my coat to hang on a ladder beside hers. Wearing Girbaud jeans and work boots, she gathers her hair up as she leads us to a set of chairs. She’s had to sort out childcare for the Monday that we’d both forgotten was a holiday and as she moves through the room with Billie Eilish playing in the background, it’s easy to forget that the Queens native is spectacularly famous. Liu, who received critical acclaim for her roles as Alex Munday in Charlie’s Angels, Ling Woo in Ally McBeal, Kittie Baxter in Chicago, and O-Ren Ishii in Kill Bill: Volume 1 (and has been equally lionized chez nous as Mia Mason in the lesser-known comedy series Cashmere Mafia and as Kristen Stevens in the delightful Netflix rom-com Set It Up!), contains multitudes. As the first Asian American to host Saturday Night Live and only the second Asian American woman to be awarded a Hollywood Star (after Anna May Wong), Liu has done so much for AAPI representation it’s almost as if we take her inclusion alongside blue-chip marquee names as a given.
Via: The Cut
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