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ProfileJennifer Lim on standing up for fellow British Asian actors, her role in the first series written for phone viewing, and learning Cantonese to fit in in London
- British actress Jennifer Lim recalls 2006 horror series When Evil Calls, the first show designed to be watched on phones, as ‘clever, like a web series now’
- The actress also touches on her more recent work, including plays about Hong Kong, and her organisation that combats ‘harmful portrayals’ of Asians in the arts
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These days, everyone’s at it. Streaming films and television shows on their mobile phones, posting them, being inspired, making their own.
It’s easy to forget the eye-straining micro-screen era, but into that brave new technological world went actress and producer Jennifer Lim in history-making, 2006 comic-horror series When Evil Calls: the first designed to be watched on a mobile phone.
“If it had arrived slightly later it would have been perfect!” recalls Lim fondly during a Zoom call from her native London. “But it was way ahead of its time, long before people started watching films on YouTube and before smartphones. It was a clever concept, a pioneer in some ways – and like a web series now.”
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Born and raised in the British capital, Lim, an advocate for Asians in the entertainment industry, has a full work diary. She will soon be seen in feature film The Monster Beneath Us, which she calls “a period horror movie set in Yorkshire”.
“Quite fun! It takes place in 1898,” says Lim. “I play a governess with a Yorkshire accent. I like a bit of variety.”
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