From the Los Angeles Times, this is Asian Enough.

Each week on this podcast, we talk to one Asian American guest about the joys, the

complications, and everything else that comes along with being Asian American.

I'm one of your hosts, Tracy Brown.

And I'm your other host, Jen Yamato.

Today we are joined by an Emmy-nominated icon.

Someone you know from television shows like Allie McBeal, Elementary, and Why Women Kill.

You know her from movies like Kill Bill, Shanghai Noon, Chicago, The Kung Fu Pandas, and as

the brilliant Alex Monday in the Charlie's Angels films.

That's right, it's the one, the only Lucy Liu.

And a lot of people that said to me, well, there's nobody that's out there, there's not

a lot of Asian presence in media, and television, film, you're going to be very limited and

you're never, you're never going to make it.

And I just thought, I don't know what that means.

I don't know what never means.

So let's just try.

I think it's safe to say people know the name Lucy Liu, but what you might not know is

that Lucy is also an accomplished visual artist, painter, director, and a mother.

She was the first Asian American woman to ever host Saturday Night Live.

And in May of 2019, Lucy became only the second Asian American woman to receive a star on

the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Plus, Lucy was inducted into a league of her own, sealed forever into history, within

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