The film follows four Asian American friends while they travel through China in search of one of their birth mothers. Speaking to Harper’s Bazaar UK, she said: “To be creatively led and surrounded by other leads who were all Asian was just the best experience. “That’s not to say on other projects people were difficult – it’s just that I’d been used to being the only Asian person on set and accommodating myself around that.
“Even growing up, it was always like, okay, what dimension of myself will make this group of people most comfortable? “And so, I understand how hard I’ve worked to get to a point where people will see me as this or that kind of actress, rather than just ‘that Asian girl from Emily In Paris’.” The first series of Netflix drama Emily In Paris followed Emily Cooper, played by Lily Collins, as she moved to the French capital and met her first friend, Mindy Chen, played by Park. Speaking on how Collins helped her settle into the role, Park said: “It would just have been too much of a whirlwind to do on my own.
“It was my first big on-screen job, so it was amazing to have the guidance of an older sister in an environment that became way more high-stakes than we’d anticipated.” She added: “Lily doesn’t believe me when I tell her this, but a week before the email came in asking me to audition, I’d just started to follow her on Instagram. “I normally have a rule that I only follow people I know or have interacted with in som.
