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NewJeffCT

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7. Liu still has a good career

Fri Jan 17, 2014, 04:41 PM

Jan 2014

Isn't she the co-star of a popular weekly drama based on Sherlock Holmes.

Chinese actors seem to have done pretty well in Hollywood the past 15-20 years - Jackie Chan, Jet Li for men, Lucy Liu, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi, Tia Carrere (part Chinese, I think?), Gong Li, and a few others for women.

Unfortunately, most Asian/Chinese men still seem to be confined to kung fu roles to get leading man parts - or samurai/ninja parts if they're Japanese. Not too many romantic leading man roles for Asian men yet - Chow Yun Fat never really made it nearly as big in Hollywood as he was in China.

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