Shadow And Bone - a new series based on the fantasy novel of the same name - made it a point to cast a half-Asian performer as its heroine Alina Starkov. Chinese-British actress Jessie Mei Li plays the orphan who discovers formidable powers that could change the world.
This was because author Leigh Bardugo and show-runner Eric Heisserer wanted to make the show more ethnically diverse than the novel, the first in Bardugo's best-selling Grishaverse trilogy.
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