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Half-Asian actress Jessie Mei Li says she can relate to her role as Alina Starkov, a mixed-race orphan in the Netflix fantasy series Shadow And Bone
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In Shadow And Bone, Jessie Mei Li plays Alina Starkov, an orphan who discovers formidable powers that could change the world, and Archie Renaux plays Malyen Oretsev.
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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.
