Actress Chloe Bennet discusses the impact of changing her surname from Wang to her father's Christian name on her Hollywood career, acknowledging both the benefits and regrets. She reflects on the perception that proximity to whiteness grants privilege and belonging, even if it's not genuine. Bennet also stars in 'Interior Chinatown,' a meta-commentary on television that explores the experiences of background characters trapped in a police procedural.
When Chloe Bennet changed her surname from Wang to her father's Christian name, she says her fortunes in Hollywood changed immediately. 'So, I auditioned for about two years, and didn't have the same issue back and forth. And then the first thing, I booked.' Despite that, Bennet, who played the lead role in Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. series, has regrets about her decision.
'I think that there can be a lot of repercussions for changing yourself to fit into someone else's idea of what you should be. And I think that that was damaging to my understanding of who I was as a young girl, and navigating the industry after that was, I don't think it was something I could really fully understand until now, maybe, because I never actually did change. So, I only changed people's perception of me. I didn't really actually change anything. 'People assume you're better for your proximity to whiteness, and I don't agree with that,' Bennet said. 'And I think that you are afforded different privileges, and you are let into something, but you're never actually a part of it in the same way. ' Bennet stars as Detective Lana Lee in Interior Chinatown, a series based on the award-winning Charles Yu novel of the same name. The series follows Willis Wu (Jimmy O Yang), a background character trapped in a police procedural TV program. Willis goes through the motions, waiting tables and dreaming about a world beyond Chinatown. When he witnesses a crime, Willis begins to unravel a criminal web and discovers what it feels like to be in the spotlight. 'There's a lot of dynamic action scenes,' Chieng told the ABC. 'There's lots of jokes to keep it fun and light, but I think the coolest part of this show, in my opinion, is it's a meta commentary on a television program. So, I think that's what's really fun and interesting, is that we're characters in a TV show that don't know that we're in a show, and so we're constantly questioning our reality, some questioning more than others
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