I think it was hard for people to cast me as an ethnic, as an Asian American woman.

'Mulan' is an iconic story for the Asian American community.

We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them doesn't have to be white, and the other one doesn't have to be the ethnic sidekick. We're way over that. And I think it's happening in society, too.

But to pretend that all was right with the world, I first had to know what was wrong.

I want to be a representative and be a role model for the Asian American community.

There is no way that we know what is going on between the African American and the Asian American. We don't understand what an Indigenous American is. We don't understand what a Latino American is.