Ahead of the return of Netflix’s hit “Bling Empire,” star Kelly Mi Li opens up about the show’s real-life “crazy rich Asians.”
For one thing, a global pandemic delayed the show’s premiere and put a damper on the cast members’ globe-trotting lifestyles. But also, for Mi Li, there was aThat first season, “I was in a darker place,” said Mi Li, who is an executive producer on the series. “I didn’t feel free to be myself because I was walking on eggshells, because I didn’t want to upset [Gray],” who showed a fiery temper on the show.“The audience will be able to see the funner and lighter side of me,” she promised.
Mi Li admits it wasn’t easy finding people for the show because “within Asian culture, especially if they from from family money, a lot of them don’t want to be that public.”Born in Kunming, China, she and her family immigrated to the US when she was 10, after her mother got a cancer research job at the University of Illinois in Chicago. Life in America was an adjustment for the entire family: Mi Li barely spoke English, and her father — a doctor in China — had to work as a carpet cleaner.
“My mom sacrificed so much,” Mi Li said, adding that she felt guilty even asking her mother for a candy bar at the discount supermarket where they shopped in Chicago. “I learned the value of a dollar at a really young age.”
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