Rebecca Davis editorLucy Liu opened up in a recent interview about the difficulties she faced earlier in her career due to racism in Hollywood.
The former “Charlie’s Angels” star’s comments come as actor Thandie Newton spoke out about how she was initially cast in Liu’s role in the 2000 film, but pulled out due to what she described as the racist, objectifying vision of director Joseph McGinty Nichol and former Sony Pictures head Amy Pascal.Liu said that when she was just starting out as an actor in Los Angeles, she struggled to get as many auditions as her white counterparts and had to work her way into rooms where no one else looked like her.
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