A: I think if I were to ever really feel like I had any meaning, it would be that. It would be to show Asian-American girls that it's possible, that there are people out there like you. Because when I was growing up, I didn't have that. When you don't see people that are like you — it's not even just being an Asian-American woman, it's being like awkward, weird Americanized Asian girls — you don't see that, so you don't think it's a possibility to exist. Same with rap. I never saw that, either. But then you realize there's a lacking of something, so when you actually do do it, you can be received in really unique ways. I think that right now, I take a lot of college shows and I'm speaking to this generation who's even more woke than I was, than even I thought I was back in the day. I can tell that they're going to do serious damage to all of the industries, and I think also, because they're raised in an environment where it's not that weird. It's still not where it should be, but it's not that weird for them to imagine to dream big.

TV: Speaking of Ocean's 8 though, I know there was also just a lot of misogynistic backlash. What did you and the rest of the cast think of that and how did you deal with that?

A: I think the one thing that...tickled us a little bit were these ridiculous rumors. I had never seen an actual lie told that I could confirm was a lie on daytime television. I forgot what show it was. It was some daytime talk show, where there was this news break, and it was like, "Oh my God. The Ocean's 8 cast needs a on-set therapist to quell all the fighting because they just can't stop fighting and yelling at each other..."

TV: Excuse me?

A: Oh yeah. And I never saw something on TV where I was like, "Oh my God, that is a lie. How could they tell lies?" It just seems that people would assume that if you have a cast of women that big, then we're just going to be fighting all the time because we can't find solidarity, we're all petty. That was the image. It couldn't have been farther from the truth. Every day on set was an empowering experience for every single one of us, and at some points we would have to stop shooting because we would just cackle like little girls at a sleepover. I think that it's possible to put a group of powerful women together and make something really good, and really organic, and something that's just not with all this stupid sh*t caked on it. There is going to be misogynistic backlash against anything with not a lot of men, that's just the world that we live in. It's so sad that you just kind of have to be like, "Oh, OK," but it's going to happen. But would you have said that about an all-male cast that they were fighting all the time and they needed a therapist because they had their periods and needed to fight?

But I think at the end of the day, there are men out there that are even-minded and that won't judge something until they actually see it, and there are other men out there that live on Reddit and don't go outside much and hate their lives. But you just got to forget them.