The six-part series sees Harlan Coben favourite Richard Armitage play a British doctor who\u2019s accused of causing the death of a Chinese woman and is ordered to return to Beijing for questioning, with Jing Lusi\u2019s DC Hana Li accompanying him on the return flight.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe fact that it\u2019s ESEA (East and Southeast Asian)-led, <\/span>the fact that Jing is the lead and it\u2019s through the perspective of her character, rather than the white man \u2013 Dr Nolan is going on this journey, he has been accused, but it\u2019s through the perspective of Hana \u2013 that\u2019s just unheard of,\u201d said Moore.<\/p>\n She continued: \u201cJoe Barton did an amazing job with Giri\/Haji<\/a>, and there have obviously been other shows where that\u2019s the case, but I think I can count just over one hand how many shows are ESEA-led.<\/p>\n Read more:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s so refreshing to see because it\u2019s happening so much in America, and I felt like in reading scripts and seeing what\u2019s been going on in UK television that we\u2019re kind of going further backwards, so this is a huge step for UK television.\u201d<\/p>\n Moore plays Jess, a journalist who is investigating the Nolan case in an effort to turbocharge her career, and Hana\u2019s half-sister, the pair sharing a Chinese father.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m mixed race and Hana isn\u2019t,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd there are obviously a lot of privileges that come with being mixed race and my proximity to whiteness, and also being brought up in the UK. It means that Jess kind of gets away with a lot more.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd Hana also now has a white stepmum. She\u2019s finding her place in the world, but Jess is finding her place in the world too. And it\u2019s not spoken about on TV very much, of this dynamic of being mixed and being mono-racial and and how that affects families that are blended.\u201d<\/p>\n As well as praising Lusi and the rest of the on-screen ESEA talent, Moore also highlighted the individuals who worked off-camera to make the production as \u201cauthentic\u201d as possible, including co-writer Jingan Young.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s just incredible what we have in front and behind,\u201d she added. \u201cGoing back to looking at the scripts, one of the main things when I first saw it was I have to play this role, I have to do this role because it\u2019s going to be so big for our community.\u201d<\/p>\n\n
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