“The world is deeply and vastly colorful, and I’m like, well, don’t you want to watch something that accurately reflects the world the way it really is, and not just, like, the Kate Hudsons of the world getting to fall in love in a rom-com?” she says.
"I believe my life purpose as an entertainer is to make people feel seen and make people feel less alone," the star of the new movie "Moonshot" said. "I hold a lot of pride in doing that."March 29, 2022, 7:49 PM UTCJust a year after the final installment of the “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before” trilogy, Lana Condor is out with a new rom-com — this time with a sci-fi twist.
Condor spoke to NBC Asian America before the “Moonshot” premiere about lessons viewers can take from the film, how she learned to embrace her identity as a Vietnamese American transnational adoptee and the importance of diversity in film. The interview has been edited for length and clarity. I also hope people take away that it’s awesome to plan, it’s awesome to dream, but also don’t rigidly plan. Life doesn’t always go as planned, and sometimes that’s OK. So I hope people take away from Sophie that they should have a plan and dream, but also to understand that — this sounds so cliché — the journey, and the people that you meet on the journey, is just as, if not more, important than the destination.
Media in general influences — for good or for bad — the real world. And I don’t understand why in film and television, or particularly in this genre, why it’s been mostly reserved for women that do not look like me.
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