One stereotype I get a lot as an Asian actress is that you’re playing the model minority – that Asians are the best, that they’re perfect and positively moral all the time. Colleen is the opposite of that. She swears a lot, she’s a good person but she can be bad too. She’s shades of grey.

She doesn’t have a ‘tiger mother’, she has no family, and she’s living in – well, not quite poverty – but she can’t pay her bills. She’s really struggling. She’s got the rent the dojo out to Weight Watchers! And that’s something that we never see, for some reason.

Statistics just came out that, in New York City, Asian Americans are actually the poorest of all the minorities, and have the highest rates of poverty – and that’s a story we never get to tell. So it was an opportunity to do that.

Another stereotype with Asian roles is that they have to do martial arts. And that was the one that made me go “hmmm” with Colleen. But actually, having done it, it was so integral to the character… OK, she’s an Asian who does martial arts, but what comes after that? What if you fight regularly – what if your morals are compromised? What if you’re addicted?