NancyDrew and TheHalfOfIt star leahmlewis talked to ET about her breakout year and how she is making waves in the Asian community. APAHM
is having a moment. The actress currently stars in two major projects that couldn't be more different from each other: Netflix's well-received LGBTQ teen romance , where she portrays the sarcastic, edgy, lipstick-rocking George Fan. Lewis, who began acting in kids' programs likeand a handful of Disney shows, has graduated to projects where she's now the star of her own young adult tale.
, the stress of learning how to speak Mandarin perfectly, discovering that food is a love language in Chinese culture -- and yes, we had to ask about thatET: First of all, you started acting at a very young age. When did you get the acting bug? It's something I always wanted to do from early on because of watching Disney. I feel like every kid has gone through this.
It's interesting because I am full Chinese, but I was adopted from Shanghai, China, by my parents, who are Caucasian. So I grew up in this Americanized household, while my parents tried to keep the Chinese culture alive as they possibly could in an American household. They definitely tried to keep me educated on what that might have been like.
What's really cool about them is, as different as they are, they're very alike in the way that they move in the family, the way that they take care of things and the way that they communicate with their parents. I noticed for both of them, it's not really about the verbal conversations they have, more the silent actions that they do to take care of one another and their family households.
It makes a huge difference when a character is supposed to be Asian American or Asian in general. Recently, we started to make a lot of waves in the Asian community, and that is incredible. Just to know that these roles are specifically about these people, it almost feels like for Leah, as an Asian,"Oh my God, my story is being told.
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