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Jessica Henwick

The U.K. and the U.S. are in different places. Don’t get me wrong – I am there for the U.K. industry, and I am always searching for more roles to play there, but it’s sparse.

– Jessica Henwick

Jessica Henwick

In British TV, if there is an Asian character, there usually has to be a reason for them to be Asian, whereas in America, you have a lot more roles where the person just happens to be Asian.

– Jessica Henwick

Jessica Henwick

The Joy Luck Club’ is not a perfect film. But, I distinctly remember watching it with my mom – and bursting into tears after the screening!

– Jessica Henwick

Jessica Henwick

I think I was just constantly seeking mental stimulation from anything I could get.

– Jessica Henwick

Jessica Henwick

The state of the industry is much like the state of politics. It’s too middle-aged, white, and male.

– Jessica Henwick

Jessica Henwick

As a female actress – I’ve been doing this since I was a teenager – I often got approached with the ingenue roles: naive and wide-eyed and childlike.

– Jessica Henwick

Jessica Henwick

For me, I really liked the idea of playing a non-superhero on a superhero show.

– Jessica Henwick

Jessica Henwick

I want to continue to broaden expectations of what an Asian can be.

– Jessica Henwick

Jessica Henwick

I turned down a lot of work. I didn’t want to ever feel defined by my ethnicity.

– Jessica Henwick

Jessica Henwick

As soon as you start looking into roles which are specifically Asian, Black, or Latina, you start looking at stereotypes. That’s the issue minority actors face – it’s not that we don’t want to play our ethnicities; it’s that, often, the role that’s written for our ethnicity is a stereotype.

– Jessica Henwick

Jessica Henwick

I learned more on ‘Spirit Warriors’ than I think I have on any other job.

– Jessica Henwick

Jessica Henwick

I turned down a lot of parts, and I ate a lot of canned tuna for dinner because I was just like, ‘No, I don’t want to do that; no, that’s awful.’ But sticking to my guns paid off, and I can look back now and be proud that I refused to take any stereotypical Asian parts.

– Jessica Henwick

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