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Ana Yi Puig: “My soul has access to two different cultures and everything they’ve fought for”

The actress on being someone’s survival guide, actors’ responsibilities and subverting Asian expectations

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Isabella Silvers
Dec 19, 2022
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Hi, welcome back to Mixed Messages! This week I’m speaking to actress Ana Yi Puig, who is of Chinese and Puerto Rican heritage. You may have seen Ana in Netflix’s Senior Year or the Gossip Girl reboot, plus she’ll be hitting screens in the upcoming Goosebumps series on Disney+. As soon as I read an interview with Ana where she described herself as ‘Chin…

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