Starring in Crazy Rich Asians and Captain Marvel turned Gemma Chan into a household name.
But it was not always so easy.
She talks about giving up law, dealing with shyness and becoming Hollywood royaltyGemma Chan is nervous, as if she’s waiting for the dentist to perform a particularly painful extraction.
We meet in a café filled with babies and tired-looking mothers, in a fancy, rich-people part of north London.
The setting is appropriate, given what we’re here to talk about: I Am Hannah, the new improvised Channel 4 drama she co-created with director Dominic Savage.
It tells the story of a woman in her mid-30s who dates, scattershot, via apps, while feeling the weight of the biological and social pressures to have a baby.
Chan, 36, is keen to point out that it is not autobiographical.“I mean, God.
I have friends who are so happily married with children,
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