Being an Asian outsider looking in
Asian-American actress Olivia Munn, who stars in series The Rook, refuses to be typecast on the basis of gender or ethnicity
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Actress Olivia Munn in The Rook (above). Daughter of a Vietnamese refugee and a father who has German and British ancestry, she wants to play strong roles and women who are also strong in their vulnerability.
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Alison de Souza In Los Angeles, Alison de Souza
As an Asian American and the child of a refugee, actress Olivia Munn knows what it is like to feel like an outsider looking in.
And this is why she is drawn to films like X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) - where she played a mutant superhero - and the series The Rook, a spy thriller about mutants with supernatural powers.
