Hacks. That’s because for Liu, a nonbinary (they/them, she/her), first-generation Chinese-American actor from New York, it’s exactly where they’re supposed to be: on our screens, representing the complex and beautiful matrix of identities that make them distinctly them.Despite her gifts as a performer, for most of her life, Liu never considered acting to be a viable career.
In part, Liu says her parents, who immigrated from China when she was just 2, set an example of hard work and sensible choices that kept her from thinking of the arts as a career.
But also, a lack of representation and not seeing someone like herself presented on-screen prevented Liu from thinking of it as even a possibility.