Case in point: The CW reboot of Kung Fu has cast Liang as its female lead – a deviation from the seventies series which had David Carradine as its original front runner, Deadline reports.

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She will play a young Chinese-American woman, Nicky Chen, a college dropout who goes on a life-changing journey to an isolated monastery in China. Upon returning to her hometown, rife with crime and corruption, she becomes a superhero in her own right, using her martial arts skills and Shaolin values to fight injustice. As the story unfolds, she will search for the assassin who killed her Shaolin mentor and is targeting her.

According to Deadline, Tzi Ma and Kheng Hua Tan will play Liang’s parents. Jon Prasida, Shannon Dang and Eddie Liu will also join the series. Here are five things you should know about the rising Asian-American star:

Liang likes to read

Liang posts flatlays and well-filtered pictures of books she has read on her Instagram account. Her reads include Such a Fun Age, The Female Persuasion, The Learners, Modern Love: True and Extraordinary Tales of Desire, Deceit, and Devotion, Crazy Rich Asians, Cartwheel, and Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage.

When a fan asked for book recommendations, Liang suggested her favourite book this year has been An Absolutely Remarkable Thing and that she was blown away by The Alchemist.

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She has multiple acting credits

Liang has extensive acting credits. She has a recurring role in CW’s Legacies and plays Alyssa Chang on The Vampire Diaries offshoot. She has also appeared in Hulu’s Crawlers.

Liang starred in a web series Dating After College and a short film, Handle With Care: A Holiday Story from Wong Fu Productions.

Liang had a guest role as a teacher’s assistant in Grey’s Anatomy. According to her IMDB page, she directed Sessions, a web comedy series that “puts fictional characters in real life therapy to discuss their not so happy ever after.”

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Liang’s known for her sense of humour

Liang’s self-deprecating humour gives her a distinct personality. She tweets her personal thoughts and her observations of funny real-life scenarios: “u ever poo so hard ur out of breath after”, “Canadian airport employees are so pleasant”, and asking Simu Liu to train her. After her agent called to give her the good news, she joked, “now can a bish get verified??” and tweeted her reaction.

Her biggest fear is hilarious

Most celebrities have weird fears and phobias: Khloe Kardashian hates belly buttons, Tyra Banks is afraid of dolphins, and Liam Payne doesn’t like spoons. For Liang, it’s someone taking a photo of her while she’s asleep with her head tilted and mouth fully open on an aeroplane – something all of us can relate to.

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She’s never tried online dating

In the Lunch Break podcast segment of More Wong Fu, a sister channel of Wong Fu Productions, Olivia said she missed out on online dating and Tinder because she was in a relationship in the past. She admitted there was also a lot of pressure involved. “It’s hard to package yourself in this. You’re like ‘I have to sound witty but I can’t sound I’m trying too hard. My pictures need to look cute but I can’t be like she posed for this’.”

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