Sherlock that was criticised as being racially insensitive.The actress spoke in a new interview about her casting in the Chinatown-set episode as a stereotypical damsel in distress that some fans and critics had labelled as a tone-deaf exercise in orientalism.In a Vogue interview Chan explained that she’d spent years taking “every job going – bit parts, one line parts, anything” in order to establish herself as a successful English actress.
Tutors at her drama school had warned her that as a British-Asian actress she would struggle to land roles in a period drama-obsessed UK.But Chan said that she now acknowledges that some of her catch-all choices may have undermined her heritage.
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