hi I'm Sharlene Wiggy w and I am here
with just a hen like the star of
Marvel's Iron Fist first thing I would
ask you is how did you start preparing
for this show when you got cast I had
heard about the character a while before
they even started casting and so i
bought the comic book i wikipedia'd her
and I email my agent and I said if a
character ever comes up with these
attributes on a show it's going to have
a code name the character had a code
name to show how to code in but I said
look for these specific things like she
runs dojo she lives in New York she's
really tough badass has a katana hmm
then message me because that's the row I
want to audition for and she like it was
like six months later that she messaged
me and said there's a character called
Christine and I think it's colleen i
made a tape i auditioned and I got cards
pretty quickly and really the production
process for me was only about half a
month before we started filming really
really last minute really yeah and so
the first thing that happened was Brett
Chan our stunt coordinator messaged me
and he said you know what are your stats
how physically capable are you and I
said you know I can I can I can I
roly-polies yeah I can do anything yeah
and he said okay I'm going to put you on
an intense regime are you ready and I
sent him yeah the fist emoji back I have
to ask because you do tweet about Asian
representation and you know since
casting was controversial in some
circles and wondering what your take is
on that as as an Asian actress as an
Eden actor what's your take on being a
series that had been you know mm-hmm a
part of that controversy yeah it was
very it was a hard decision to make you
could join the show not because of the
material or anything but just because
I'm part of the Asian community I'm
Asian I'm an actor if anyone understands
the conversation happening it's me I've
lived and breathed it to for eight nine
years now that public I've been working
and I'm also a really good friend of fin
and I think he's an amazing action I
think you really knocked out the park
would love I would love to see an Asian
American superhero and I think that it's
going to happen when I came on to iron
fist it was really Colleen wing that
sold it for me she's not a superhero
she's just an ordinary person who has
the guts to fight people with
superpowers which i think is amazing and
I just thought she was such a cool
character and said that's why I that's
why I came onto the show because I
thought it was a good opportunity to
have to see a really strong female asian
american anyway she is a superhero I
mean yeah cousin Mike and you don't you
don't have to wear a cape or have super
super powers to be a severe in my
opinion green Claire Rosario Dawson's
character she's probably saved more
lives than any of the other guys put
together I was saying and she keeps
having to do it no she keeps doing it
doesn't I'm not sure right but I think I
think if anything could not have
superpowers and to exist in a world
where people do have that and to still
be like I'm gonna go and I'm going to
fight for what's right if anything
that's more heroic yeah is I can I can
die I don't have anything to double back
on there are higher stakes I have had
well then to wrap up I so you have kind
of hit the kingdom trifecta here you
know you you were in the fourth awakened
you did game of thrones and now you're
in the Marvel Universe so I i guess my
question is what is what is your key to
success desk it was completely
unintentional i did not shut it down and
say oh I'm gonna do Marvel and this
one's good Merrigan ours awesome i'm
going to do the pulpit prequel like it
just happened that way i do think going
by staging representation there's
something about fantasy and sci-fi that
seems more welcoming of different
ethnicities it's like oh we're united
against a common threat which is an
alien oh so it's okay we can all be we
can all be different quickly by really
the other is the alien not the other as
in the Asian right um which is sad it
means that I've been presented with a
lot of really cool opportunities