Interior Chinatown stars Ronny Chieng and Chloe Bennet can relate to being relegated to the background
ABCWhen Chloe Bennet changed her surname from Wang to her father's Christian name, she says her fortunes in Hollywood changed immediately. 'It's a meta commentary on a television program' Bennet stars as Detective Lana Lee in Interior Chinatown, a series based on the award-winning Charles Yu novel of the same name. "In Australia, I think it's tough to be a main character in an authentically told story," Chieng said, saying he attended the 25th annual SAG awards in 2019 at which the Black Panther cast was honoured. Bennet says there is another side to the coin, in which people are sometimes brought in for "cultural reasons" — something Interior Chinatown highlights in the first episode with the character she plays. "Inherently, the show is created by, show run by, created on and off camera by people who deeply understand the stories that we're telling," Bennet said.
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Prequel to Detective Chinatown series hits screens on New Year's Day
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