Her mother, whose traditional Chinese parents never afforded her the opportunity to pursue dancing and singing seriously, leads the Lawless family’s effort to support Megan and her brother’s acting careers. “The creative, artistic gene comes from her.” “My mom said that she always saw it in me she had faith I could become a successful performer,” Lawless says about her biggest supporter. By studying business and finance, I feel like all I can really do is help my career and give me more tools to propel it.” “An actress has to understand both the craft and the business side of it. Some people feel like you can only do one or the other, but I always had faith that I could pull both off,” the college freshman says. “It is crazy, but I’ve always been really passionate about school and acting. As a business economics major at the University of California, Los Angeles, the Chinese American admits juggling both academics and acting can feel like a lot sometimes. In real life, Megan’s balance between her lives explains why she found her “super smart, Type A” character easily relatable. Megan considers Maya the glue that holds everyone together - an important role to have when her best friend Starr Carter’s (Amandla Stenberg) struggle to blend her polar-opposite worlds unfolds. It’ll be easy to remember Lawless after her biggest role to date as Maya Yang in the upcoming film “The Hate U Give.” Based on the New York Times-bestselling novel by Angie Thomas, the film tackles provocative issues like police brutality and racial identity in America. “He was like, ‘What’s your name again? And tell me your full name because I want to remember it,’ and I was like, ‘Megan Lawless!’ He said, ‘Okay, I’ll remember it.’ Later that evening, he followed me on Instagram! I was blown away.” “ just took the time to talk to me, which he didn’t have to, and we became friends,” she recalls during a phone interview on a Sunday afternoon. She recently had a chance encounter with the “genius” director.
Yeah, desperately.” An outspoken “Crazy Rich Asians” fan, the actress admired the way Asian Americans were represented in the film. Megan Lawless has a clear vision for her future: “I desperately want to work with Jon Chu.
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