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If there aren't roles you want to play, then you've kind of got to create them.

I've built a career in Asia for 18 years, playing roles that had nothing to do with my race because everybody's Chinese in the films.

I think you have to be really lucky to pick the sort of roles you want to do.

I don't really give much thought to the roles that I'd ideally love to play.

Once in a while, I write in Malay and work on something fun that's more for the local Malaysian market, and when that happens, it's always something really special; it speaks volumes that I'm doing it for my fans who have been there for me since day one.

I choose roles that are not me.

When I find a role I want to play, I just go after it.

Potentially, you do inhabit different worlds. And while there are no specific roles I'm burning to play, as far as acting in the future goes, I'd really like to have done searing work.

So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.