The arrival of The CW’s “Kung Fu” couldn’t come at a more crucial time. Amid a rise in anti-Asian racism and hate crimes, the timing of the series — a modern-day reimagining of the 1970s martial arts drama — isn’t lost on leading lady Olivia Liang, who plays central heroine Nicky Shen. “It’s very eerie how relevant it is to what’s happening today,” Liang acknowledges during a recent phone interview with ET. “It’s crazy how reflective of the world we’re living in today, April 2021, is in the pilot.
It doesn’t escape us that our show is coming at a very strangely, eerily on-time moment… We talk about it being a reclamation of the original series aired in the ’70s, but I think it’s also a reclamation of our identity in this country.” Adapted
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