Celia thought the Yellow Power Ranger kicking butt was ‘so cool’ as a kid (Picture: Netflix/Metro.co.uk)

Netflix’s Wu Assassins dropped last week and it’s safe to say that people are falling in love with the mystical drama.

But for Celia Au, who plays Ying Ying in the series, it’s even more important because of what it represents – with the star admitted that she had very few people to look up to on screen when she was younger.

Speaking to Metro.co.uk, the actress revealed: ‘Growing up, my parents owned a video store and I only saw Asian representation from Asia.

‘Hong Kong films, Japanese films…but I’d never seen it in the American cinema and if I did it was the Yellow Ranger in Power Rangers.




‘That’s the first and only one where I was like, “Oh my God this is awesome! She looks like me and she’s kicking butt! It’s so cool!”

‘After that, besides Power Rangers, you didn’t really see any more Asian representation and like superheroes.’

Ying Ying teaches Kai his powers as a Wu Assassin before he heads to save the world (Picture: Netflix)

Now Celia, is taking centre stage in Wu Assassins – with Ying Ying tasked with finding and training the final Wu Assassin before a mysterious evil threatens to take over everything.

She finds her trainee in Kai Jin (Iko Uwais), a young and unsuspecting Chinatown chef who as a result is suddenly thrown into the ancient fight and the Chinese Triad’s pursuit of the Wu Xing – a series of deadly powers that could ruin the world.

Celia hopes that the long overdue presence of Asian representation is here to stay, and is glad to be a part of it as she reveals she’d be up for the challenge of being in Shang-Chi, the upcoming Marvel movie that’s an almost exclusively Asian cast.

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‘Shang-Chi’s coming out and it’s the first one in the Marvel universe and I’m super excited for that,’ she told us. ‘So if I’m offered the pleasure of being in it, it’ll be “yes! Let’s do it!”’

And in the meantime, Celia hopes that she can remain with Ying Ying so she can finally learn how to fly – because that was the only thing she wasn’t allowed to do during production.

She admitted: ‘Hopefully, knock on wood, if we get a season two I can be like “Can you teach me how to fly?”

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‘I was trying to so hard that day, in a day of rehearsals before we had to do all of the flying scenes, I’m sitting there going “I’m ready, put me in a harness!” and even my double was like “I’ll teach you how to do this” and then the stunt co-ordinator came in and was like “Nah-uh. No guys. This is too dangerous.”’



‘I have Chinese Kung Fu training and some weapons training and when I got on the show I was doing training in fights and some sword stuff,’ she explained. ‘But anything that’s more dangerous my awesome stunt double will always be like “I got it, don’t die. We need your face, don’t get your face hurt.”’

Wu Assassins is available now on Netflix.

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