Karrueche Tran Talks Acting, Being A Minority In Hollywood & Staying Focused

On being brown in Hollywood:

I’m all for diversity and anything multicultural. I’m half Black and half Vietnamese and grew up very diverse. I had an Asian godmother and Korean best friends, so being a Black actor and being involved in the industry is amazing. I would love to be able to contribute to the community of African American actors. We need more of them out there, just period. People look at me and ask “What are you?” and I tell them Black and Vietnamese and they think that’s really cool. I love and am happy that I’m able to bridge these two cultures and even the Asian culture because it’s not that many out there.

If she feels like her experiences with the Chris Brown drama and the timing of it all has given her more drive and focus in pursuit of acting and channeling the craziness:

Karreuche Tran: It does. Just to keep working and focusing on myself. It helps to block out all the noise. When I have all this drama going on in my personal life and unfortunately, it’s all over the media, I can just work and put my time and energy into that. You can’t go wrong with working hard. So, if I can just continue to focus and work on that, then, hey, I’m Ok. I’m breathing, I’m fine, my bills are paid (laughs). And with things going on and with me being emotional on the inside, I can reverse that and let it out in my acting.

How she describes this time of her life:

Honestly, I’m just really happy and blessed, living in this moment and embracing it. Because I was at a point in my life where, I guess you can say, I was lost and didn’t really know what I wanted to do and now I’ve found something that I love for a career — modeling and acting. I’m really just happy and I can only go up from here!

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