Raised in Queens, New York, by a Chinese father and South Korean artist mother, Lum first discovered she could make people laugh after her mother died from pulmonary hypertension when she was four years old.
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Lum plays the heroine’s best friend, Peik Lin Goh. “I dreamed of being in the movie before I even heard it was being made,” says Lum. It stars Michelle Yeoh as tiger mum Eleanor Young and British-Malaysian former model Henry Golding and Fresh off The Boat star Constance Wu as the star-crossed lovers. It is the first English-language contemporary Hollywood movie featuring an almost all-Asian cast since The Joy Luck Club 25 years ago. The rom-com has topped the US box-office for three straight weeks, making Asian-American movie history.Īdapted from Kevin Kwan’s best-seller, Crazy Rich Asians is more than just a glitzy love story about beautiful people and scheming families. A cameo in the 2016 comedy movie Neighbours 2: Sorority Rising was followed by a starring role in indie comedy, Dude, and this year, the 5’ 1” dynamo, exploded into the mainstream with a role in the big-budget heist, Ocean’s Eight.įor a relative unknown to win a coveted role opposite such glitterati as Cate Blanchett, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway and Sandra Bullock is something, but it is Crazy Rich Asians that is truly ground-breaking. “My Vag” led to five seasons of her own web series, Tawk, which brought her to the attention of Hollywood’s power-brokers.
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Two albums, a documentary, numerous TV roles, a travel guide and five films later, she wears her multi-hyphenate status of actress-rapper-producer-comedian-author-activist with a self-deprecating charm when we meet over tea at a West Hollywood hotel. ‘I created my stage name so I wouldn’t lose my job.
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