Beyond Crazy Rich Asians: Gemma Chan on fame, family and her memories of Hong Kong.
The actress, who also starred in Captain Marvel and Mary Queen of Scots, is passionate about building on her success to open the door for others – and finding stories that don’t pigeonhole Asians in Asia.
Being the first guest of the St Regis Hong Kong has been a homecoming of sorts for Crazy Rich Asians actress Gemma Chan – after all, her Macau-born father grew up here and her mainland Chinese mother spent some time here before emigrating to Greenock, in Scotland.
Despite the filming and publicity work for the runaway success movie taking her around the world, Hong Kong never came up on the agenda for the London-born Chan. “I haven’t been here since my childhood and it’s very special for me to be here,” she says as we sit down in her St Regis suite.
“My mum and my dad are here with me as well so I’m really excited to be back. We’re planning to visit the places my dad used to go to. My memories of Hong Kong are so vivid. I remember we took a boat ride in the 1990s and we took a ferry ride around the island and just the sights and the smells. There’s nothing like it.”
Read more here: https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/people-events/article/3013356/beyond-crazy-rich-asians-gemma-chan-fame-family-and
The actress, who also starred in Captain Marvel and Mary Queen of Scots, is passionate about building on her success to open the door for others – and finding stories that don’t pigeonhole Asians in Asia.
Being the first guest of the St Regis Hong Kong has been a homecoming of sorts for Crazy Rich Asians actress Gemma Chan – after all, her Macau-born father grew up here and her mainland Chinese mother spent some time here before emigrating to Greenock, in Scotland.
Despite the filming and publicity work for the runaway success movie taking her around the world, Hong Kong never came up on the agenda for the London-born Chan. “I haven’t been here since my childhood and it’s very special for me to be here,” she says as we sit down in her St Regis suite.
“My mum and my dad are here with me as well so I’m really excited to be back. We’re planning to visit the places my dad used to go to. My memories of Hong Kong are so vivid. I remember we took a boat ride in the 1990s and we took a ferry ride around the island and just the sights and the smells. There’s nothing like it.”
Read more here: https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/people-events/article/3013356/beyond-crazy-rich-asians-gemma-chan-fame-family-and
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