#cm24

Agent May’s character was originally named Althea Rice and was not specifically cast as an Asian woman. When she got the part, Maurissa Tancharoen said, ‘We’re not going to be able to call you ‘Rice’, are we?’

She does 80% of her own stunts on Agents of Shield and injured her knee in the scene where (spoilers) May and Coulson are fighting two of the robotic clones of the Russian

She doesn’t have any belts although she has studied tae kwon do, kung fu and is studying wushu

After she played Chun-Li in Street Fighter she said she’d never do any more action roles again. (She was incorrect.)

She is still close with her co-stars from The Joy Luck Club and calls them her ‘sisters and aunties’

She was nine months pregnant when Dr. Chen gave birth on ER, and could not stop crying, for real, during the scene where she gave up the baby for adoption (and told off Noah Wyle when he told her to “save it for the close-up!”)

She loves tequila and dirty jokes and says she is probably the biggest handful on set, although when Chloe was suggested she added, “Sure, Chloe! I’ll throw Chloe under the bus!”

She does not really want Coulson and May to get together because she loves the tension, and the way they have a strong friendship they don’t want to complicate or damage

She loves Star Wars. As a kid she said she would pray to “God, Buddha and the Force” and would love to be cast in any role in the movies, even the tea lady or someone who just hands people lightsabers (Disney, you know what to do!!)

She also loves Mulan and is hoping to be/talking to Disney about being involved in the live-action version (SAAAME)

She was president of her high school sci-fi club so genuinely enjoys doing genre work

She would love to do more comedy, romantic comedy, etc. in the future

She loves beaded bracelets although had to stop accepting any for awhile because people gave her so many

She has been trying to write a lifestyle book because people keep asking her how she stays so young, but she’s finding it more difficult than she expected for various reasons

She wore a small lapel pin for photographs which I could see was green and thought was a charity badge of some sort but the flash from the photo clearly shows it is a Hydra pin, cheeky lady