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  • Ming-Na Wen Is Glad Her Kids Like “Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.” And Finally Think She’s Cool

    MIng-Na Wen is the kick-butt pilot and weapons instructor, Melinda May, on the popular Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D series.

    In character, MIng-Na Wen is a woman that you do not want to mess with.

    Serious, matter-of-fact, and calculating, Ming-Na Wen is cool under pressure.

    She gets the job done no matter what, she rarely smiles, and she is one of the reasons many on Coulson’s team aren’t dead yet.

    However, Ming-Na Wen is quite possibly May’s polar opposite when she’s at home.

    Apparently, it's #nationalhugday! That should be everyday! Cyber hugs to you from #AgentsofSHIELD gang!!

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    In fact, her character on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. has shocked her children into thinking she’s actually cool. Melinda May has really won them over.

    “They love the show,” Ming-Na Wen said of her children.

    Agents of S.N.O.R.E. #portlandcomiccon Fun but long day meeting our fans! @wizardworld #AgentsofSHIELD

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    Ming-Na Wen said that when her son, Cooper Dominic, 9, saw the show about the Marvel Comics organization debut at San Diego Comic Con in 2013, he freaked out.

    She said, “He was like, ‘Mom! I didn’t know you could fly a plane. That is so cool!’”

    I wonder if Ming-Na Wen told him the truth about television magic or if she let that one slide. I would have let it slide.

    Ming-Na Wen said her daughter, Michaela, 14, is especially amazed by her mother’s character on the show.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToLBH1V0kIg

    Ming-Na Wen admitted that when she’s at home, “I laugh all the time and I’m always smiling and mommy’s the one that does the cooking and mommy’s a klutz.”

    Yep, that is a big difference, alright. Melinda May wouldn’t do any of those things.

    Despite all of the rave reviews for her amazing performance on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Ming-Na Wen is made the happiest knowing that, for once, her kids think she’s cool.

    She said, “For me, my career could be over right then and there and I’d be happy.”

    What do you think of Ming-Na Wen’s real-life personality? Are you surprised?

  • Chloe Bennet Says Acting Career Took Off When She Changed Her Name

    Actress Chloe Bennet believes her luck in Hollywood changed within days of adopting a new surname.

    The 22-year-old actress was born Chloe Wang, the daughter of a Chinese father and Caucasian mother in Chicago, IL.

    “I was having trouble booking things with my last name. I think it was hard for people to cast me as an ethnic, as an Asian American woman,” Bennet told The Toronto Star. “But I still wanted to keep my dad’s name, and I wanted to respect him, so I used his first name.”

    Bennet says that within a matter of days, she landed her first big role, a recurring spot on ABC’s hit musical drama Nashville.

    Bennet appeared in seven episodes of Nashville’s first season.

    From there she went on to become what some consider one of the breakout stars of the 2013-2014 television season when she landed the role of computer hacker Skye on Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

    Bennet is joined on the Marvel adaptation by another actress of Chinese decent, Ming-Na Wen, who was born in Macau and lived in Hong Kong before moving to the United States as a child.

    “It’s been great to be a part of a show which is groundbreaking in terms of being an American woman and being Asian on television because there’s people who don’t see a lot of that and I’m really proud of it,” Bennet has said.

    Bennet disagrees with critics who say the cast of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is too homogenous:

    “It’s funny to see people say it’s not an ethnically diverse cast,” she says. “This is the first show where two of the regulars are Asians of Chinese extraction.”

    Far from being out of touch with her Asian roots, Bennet has embraced them throughout her life.

    When she was 15-years-old, she left her investment banker father, doctor mother, and ethnically diverse set of six brothers (“two African American, one Mexican American, and the rest half-Chinese,” according to Bennet) behind in Chicago to pursue a music career in Shanghai.

    “It was pretty difficult,” Bennet admits. “I didn’t know anyone there and didn’t speak the language. For the first few months, every day was the same: six hours of dance and four hours of Mandarin. But I had to grow up fast. I like to call it my high school job.”

    After a few years in Shanghai and Beijing, she returned to the US, changed her last name, and set her sights on an acting career.

    “I wanted to be racially ambiguous,” she says.”It must have worked. The first audition I went to was for Nashville.”

    Bennet keeps her Mandarin skills sharp by practicing with Ming-Na on the set of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

    “It’s a lot of fun,” she says. “We’ll talk in a nasty tone and pretend we’re saying bad things about the other actors when really we’re paying them compliments.”

    Image via Chloe Bennet, Instagram