After True Lies and Waynes World she was set up to become a big star. Then blah, nothing. Thing is we don't usually know what's going on behind the scenes. Like is she hard to work with? Got really bad advice from agents? Made her own bad choices? I haven't seen her in anything for quite a while.
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shareI came on to her message boards to ask the same thing. Surprised there aren't any answers yet.
shareNo one knows?
shareI think it will remain a mystery.
shareStarred in a string of mediocre to subpar films that didn't made little to no money.
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I surmise that, on a pragmatic level, there weren't many roles in Hollywood for a Filipino / Chinese-looking actress who would not do kung fu. From the point of view of a movie producer, that particular ethnic type would only be considered in a martial arts role, or as a prostitute who is murdered by the villain. There wouldn't have been any roles for her as the leading lady because she isn't Caucasian, and I assume she wasn't interested in just playing murder victims.
To be fair, the 1990s seemed to chew up a lot of actresses who were there one minute and gone the next, I'm thinking of Juliette Lewis and Laura Dern in particular. And she has gone on to a fairly successful singing career. And she can look at herself naked in the mirror every morning, which is reward enough.