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Looking forward to the Astrid Leong - Micheal Teo - Charlie Wu love triangle!

“Crazy Rich Asians” will be released on Friday August 17, 2018 and distributed worldwide by Warner Bros.

Directed by John M Chu and stars Constance Wu, Henry Golding, Michelle Yeoh, Gemma Chan, Harry Shum Jr, Pierre Png, Ken Jeong, Awkwafina, Sonoya Mizuno, Chris Pang, Remy Hii, Jing Lusi, Ronny Chieng, Jimmy O. Yang and Nico Santos.   

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You'll Want To Know These Actresses' Names In 2018

These fierce ladies are changing the game in Hollywood this year.

Gemma Chan is one of Refinery29′s 23 Film Actresses You Need To Know About In 2018:

Gemma Chan ‘This 35-year-0ld British actress will be hitting the screen in style this summer as Astrid Leong in Crazy Rich Asians. You'll also be able to catch her plotting alongside Margot Robbie and Saoirse Ronan in Mary, Queen of Scots.”

Also on the list are Letitia Wright (played Renie in Humans Series 2) and Sonoya Mizuno (Araminta Lee in the upcoming Crazy Rich Asians film).

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How the 'Crazy Rich Asians' team faced the pressures of representation

...All those intangible hopes — that perhaps the film will rejuvenate the rom-com genre, that maybe it’ll break ground for Asian movie stars — may rest ultimately on the film’s box office fortunes, but that’s an impossible burden. This is not “Crazy Rich Asians Who Will Solve All of Hollywood’s Representation Problems”.

“We have to be realistic about the fact that this is one movie, and one movie can’t be all things to all people,” says Gemma Chan, who stars as Nick’s (Henry Golding) favorite cousin Astrid Leong. “I hope it opens the door for other movies, that it will lead to more confidence in having more films being made. And I think that’s all we can hope for.”

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Excerpts from Modern Weekly Style (China) 29 Dec 2016

Photography by Tom Van Schelven

Please be aware that the following translations were made using Bing/Google translate from the original Chinese text to English. There may be inaccuracies in both words and grammar.

“For Chan, a 34-year-old, far-sighted, trying to seek opportunities, a series of roles brought her progress. “I don’t want to always repeat the same thing, I want to challenge and want to play a new role.” I think it’s very interesting to be able to tell these different stories, to play different roles, to wear different costumes and to live a different life. If you’re lucky enough to be part of the production, it’s also a great place to work.“

“表演之外，Chan认为自己是幸运的，她表示，接下来她会更多地参与到慈善活动中去。“这对我来说非常重要，我现在觉得，我们都有责任了解世界上在发生的事情。我们都紧紧联系着彼此，都有责任做好我们的分内工作。”对我而言，这一充满包容性和责任感的言论与《人类》的世界观如出一辙.“

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MW: How did you get into the role of the artificial person? Did the director give you any instructions?

GC: They never gave me any definitive instructions, like what they want, but they certainly don’t want the stereotype of “robot” images, wacky head movements or spasms. They want to be different from the images you saw in the robot movies and TV dramas. As soon as I got the character I went to visit a veteran choreographer and we worked together for about one months before filming the film to capture the action of the human character. Every action consumes a certain amount of energy, and every action you make must save energy effectively, and finally, I got this graceful and effective action.

MW：你是如何进入人造人这一角色的？导演有没有给你什么指示？

GC：他们从没给我什么决策性的指示，比如说他们想要哪种样子，但他们肯定不想要那种刻板的“机器人”形象，古怪的头部动作或是出现痉挛。他们想要与之前你在机器人电影和电视剧当中看到的不同的形象。我一接到这个角色就去拜访了一位资深的编舞，我们在电影开拍前一起工作了大概一个月，以捕捉人造人角色的动作。每一个动作都会消耗一定能量，你的每一个行为都必须有效储蓄能量，最后，我就得到了这种优雅又有效的动作。

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MW: What kind of experience is learning at drama school?

GC: I deliberately chose a strict drama school, where training is not a joke. They can make you cry at the Drama Centre London, but that’s the effect I wanted. The atmosphere was tense, and despite the enjoyment, I was always ready to leave at the end of the course. You can learn a lot at drama school, but it’s totally different from your actual combat. You will soon learn the skills needed for a particular job and quickly grasp it. Can I say that I’m more shy in private than I am at the show? I find freedom in character and feel I can do everything.

MW：在戏剧学校学习是怎样一种体验？

GC：我刻意选择了一所严格的戏剧学校，那里的训练不是闹着玩的。他们能在伦敦戏剧中心让你失声痛哭，但我要的就是这种效果。那里气氛紧张，尽管享受，我也时刻准备着在课程结束之后离开。你可以在戏剧学校学到很多，但这跟你实战起来完全不同。你会很快学到某个特定工作所需的技巧并且迅速掌握。我可以说我私下里比表演时害羞得多吗？我在角色中找到自由，感觉我能胜任一切。

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MW: For a Chinese-American British actress, do you feel like you’ve played a role that has made you marginalized?

GC: I think every actor should try to avoid being “shaped”, no matter where you come from and what kind of background you have. I had to do my best not to be shaped, and the drama school experience has made it all better. Although the roles I play are becoming more diverse, we must always be aware that I should avoid being “shaped”. Today, even though I have made progress, there is still room for improvement. Especially in this country, we are often taught that our past is not important… People of color often have more stories to tell, and through the long river of history, those are the stories we never told.

MW：作为一名华裔英国演员，你有没有觉得你扮演过的角色让你变得边缘化？

GC：我觉得每个演员都要尽力避免被“塑形”，不管你来自何方，有着怎样的背景。我必须尽力不被塑形，戏剧学校的经历使这一切都有所改善。尽管我所饰演的角色正在变得多元化，但我们都必须时刻意识到，我始终应当避免被塑形。今天，即使我有所进步，但也仍有进步的余地。特别是在这个国家，我们经常被教导说，我们的过去并不重要，我们过去经历的故事，现在呈现在我们眼前的故事。有色人种往往拥有更多的故事可讲，穿越历史的长河，那些，都是我们未曾讲述过的故事。

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MW: Do you think the lack of diversity in performance is still a problem? Are dramas, movies, and TV dramas different from their own openness?

GC: That’s hard to say. I think today, practitioners in these three major areas are more aware of the problem. For example, I took part in a show last year in the West end of London, it was the first time I had played the lead role in The Homecoming, and I would never have imagined at drama school that one day I would have played this role and been involved in the production of the show, not because of my ethnicity. In fact, for no reason at all, the audience is fully receptive to my role. This is clearly a result of the effort, not only in relation to race, but also with regard to gender, and to some extent challenges people’s perceptions of gender and race. We are trying to rectify this balance in an unprecedented way.

MW：你认为表演中的多样性的缺乏仍成问题吗？话剧、电影和电视剧，它们跟自己的开放性有所不同吗？

GC：这很不好说。我认为今天，这三大领域的从业人员更加意识到这一问题的存在。比如说，我去年在伦敦西区参与了一场演出，那是我第一次在重新上演的《归家（The Homecoming）》中扮演主角，我在戏剧学校的时候绝不会想到，有一天我会扮演这个角色、参与这部剧的制作，且不是因为我的种族的原因。事实上，尽管毫无理由，现场观众却完全接受由我来扮演这一角色。这明显是努力的成果，不仅与种族有关，也与性别有关，某种程度上挑战了人们对于性别和种族的认知。我们正史无前例地试图矫正这一平衡。

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Gemma updated her instagram stories today (8 Jan 2018) with news of Humans Series 3 back to work/filming again!

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Quintessa is the Prime of Life/The Great Deceiver.

To be continued.....

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Spotlight on….”Love Is a Four Letter Word: Worth Seven Points (2015)”

A short film written by Keith Storrier and directed by John Schwab, starring Gemma Chan as “Wife “and Ed Stoppard as “Husband”.

“One party in a relationship has finally plucked up the courage to express his unhappiness. But that conversation will take a unusual shape. As our couple begin an emotionally charged and brutally honest game of Scrabble, both will get more than they bargained for. “

Full movie can be viewed at: https://vimeopro.com/boxfly/haydn/video/141122006

Keith Storrier wrote about the process of creating the film on his website.

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