I also have a routine with breathing and visualization techniques that I go through when I feel overwhelmed or nervous.

Usually you read a script and you know somebody who knows somebody who maybe knew that person or met them once.

I love the process of creating a character; someone entirely different from myself, and depicting it, either on stage or screen.

For the first four years of my studying in the U.S., I couldn't go home for two reasons. One is I was afraid that if I left my student visa may not hold and I wouldn't be able to come back to continue. Second, there was this big outrage in China that I didn't know how to face the public.

Center Stage focused on the drive and what it's like to be a student, and this is what it's like to be an adult and what you need to give up in the pursuit of that passion and that focus.

I left home at 14 and I have friends who joined the navy and the army performing troops at 9. I know people [like that]. It's a very straightforward character.

I also have a routine with breathing and visualization techniques that I go through when I feel overwhelmed or nervous.