Suki Speaks: More with Jennie Kwan on Her Evolution in ATLA

Avatar: Braving the Elements

Nickelodeon

Animation & Manga, Tv & Film, Leisure, After Shows

4.9 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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This special episode featuring Jennie Kwan takes an even deeper look at her role as Suki, the Kyoshi Warrior. Janet and Dante discuss Suki’s evolution in ATLA, touching on her empowering nature and the personal challenges that she and other characters like Sokka face in the series. Jennie shares her experiences as an Asian American actor in Hollywood, and the trio explores the cultural significance of Suki’s role, as well as the larger context of diversity within the world of Avatar. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, friends,
0:03.0	Hello, friends, benders and non-benders alike. Welcome to Braving the Elements, Nickelodeon's brand new podcast about all things avatarverse. I'm Janet Varney.
0:31.2	And I am Dante Bosco. All right. So our last episode, we had a wonderful time recapping episode four of the last
0:38.5	airbender, the Warriors of Kyoshi, where we met, of course, Suki for the first time.
0:44.3	And now we are continuing on with the marvelous Jenny Kwan, Queen of the Kyoshi Warriors.
0:51.9	And this is all about Jenny now. Maybe a little bit about
0:55.8	Suki, but definitely about Jenny. I would love to get into your backstory, Jenny. You know,
1:01.7	you've been doing this for quite a while and have done so, so many different marvelous
1:05.8	things in entertainment. You're so multifaceted. You're so talented. It's been an interesting road and I'm really, really just happy to be where I'm at today. Will you tell folks who don't know you from outside of Avatar what you were on tour for? Other stuff that you've done that you're particularly proud of. My first job actually was a voiceover job.
1:27.7	I played the voice of Audrey's singing voice in a spin-off off of Little Shop of Horrors.
1:34.8	There was a cartoon called Little Shop.
1:36.1	Wow.
1:36.4	Yeah, so my first job was a singing job for a voiceover.
1:41.0	And maybe people may know me from a TV show called California Dreams it was on NBC
1:46.4	course I was gonna bring that up if you didn't bring it up there's a lot of my friends on that show
1:50.9	my brother was on city guys and your brother that's right which is all the Peter Angle she's
1:57.0	part of TGIF or T was it TGIF Friday? It's TNBC.
2:01.4	TNBC.
2:01.9	TNBC lineup on set.
2:03.8	Peter Engel is a certain era in television.
2:08.0	Yes.
2:08.0	And you know, you're part of that whole generation.
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