Anna Cathcart Celebrates the Richness of Having Multiple Cultural Backgrounds,"You get to have multiple parts of yourself. You're not half, and you're not incomplete, but that's what makes you whole."
Anna Cathcart Celebrates the Richness of Having Multiple Cultural Backgrounds
Anna Cathcart stars in the new To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before spinoff called XO, Kitty. In the show, everyone’s favorite matchmaker Kitty Song Covey enrolls at the Korean Independent School of Seoul (KISS) and undergoes a transformative journey, where she discovers the complexities of deeply involved emotional relationships.
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In our interview with Anna, she discussed how she felt growing up mixed race in Canada.
Brittney TrinhAnna Cathcart is of Chinese and Irish descent.
“Growing up, I was always very proud of my mixed race. I was really lucky that I grew up in Vancouver where there’s a lot of mixed kids and there’s a lot of Asian population as well, so I felt like I could celebrate that.”
Steve Granitz / FilmMagic / Getty Images“Every time I saw a mixed kid onscreen, it was really exciting because those little things of having one parent who’s part of the culture, one parent who’s part of a different culture, and those specifics was so exciting to see that other people are like that, too, and that me and my ‘halfie’ friends can all be like ‘Hey! We do that!'”
Monica Schipper / Getty Images“I was very lucky to have that experience, and I know that lots of people don’t grow up feeling like that, so I hope more people can, and I hope people watching this show can now feel represented as well.”
Netflix / Via youtube.com“Being mixed race, sometimes it can feel like — and I know lots of other halfies have said or told me this — it’s half of one or half of another and you’re not enough of this or that, but sometimes, I feel like it can be a superpower.”
Araya Doheny / Getty Images for Netflix“You get to have multiple parts of yourself. You’re not half, and you’re not incomplete, but that’s what makes you whole. You have so many different, beautiful parts that you get to explore.”
Rodin Eckenroth / Getty Images for Netflix“You get exposed to so many different traditions and cultures, and I always thought of that as an amazing thing of expanding your horizons.”
Elyse Jankowski / Getty ImagesXO, Kitty premieres on Netflix starting Thursday, May 18th.
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