Lana Condor

Hollywood screwed up in the past. They made Asians the other - a separate group that could only hang out with each other.

I hoped that I would be a lead in my career; of course that was a hope of mine. But I never thought I would be so lucky to be the lead of a romcom. Simply because I don't get those opportunities, for probably many reasons, but one of would likely be because I'm Asian.

When I first started auditioning, I was so, dare I say, desperate and hungry for a job that I pretty much went out for anything my agents sent me with a few exceptions.

Yoga, working out, go to class, group settings where you can't be on your phone, that's a great way to unplug!

A lot challenges me! Not psyching myself out, not doubting myself, not comparing myself to others... all of that challenges me. But inevitably, challenges are put into our lives so that we may grow and become the best version of who we are meant to be.

In middle school, I did the whole, like, 'Do you like me? Check this box yes, check this box no,' I did that to so many crushes; I always got in trouble for passing notes in school.

When I was a kid, I honestly never thought about race. I didn't see differences.

When you're the only woman of color, and you walk into a room of people who don't look like you, most of them with blond hair and blue eyes, it's disheartening. The weirdest part is that I walk in and assume they think I'm auditioning to play a different role than them, but I'm going out for their same role.

YA, I feel, is so accurate to what it is like be a teenager and the realities of being a teenager and being in love.

Birkenstocks are highly underrated. They are so comfortable.

I like to do yoga because it centers me and makes me realize truly what's important.

The way 'TATB' depicts race, and how it normalizes our differences, is actually one of the things I am most proud of.