


It was absolutely amazing and I am so thankful to be able to do something like this.” And, it had the biggest payoff in the end. “This was really a role that I had the most difficulty preparing for. But, kicking cancer’s ass, I think, is the hardest role that I’ve had to take on so far. “I think everybody always sees me as the martial arts girl kicking butt. I never get to play these kinds of characters,” Hu says. “It was definitely a different kind of character for me.


She tends to be cast in strong roles such as with “The Orville,” “Arrow” and “The Vampire Diaries.” The Lifetime movie was a big change for her. Hu will not reveal what is on her bucket list but one of the items might have been to take a role that is different than she normally gets. While keeping Brenda a secret from her adoptive parents Diana (Shannen Doherty) and Marty (Jamie Kahler), Talia grows closer to the mother she never knew. Meanwhile, Brenda discovers a meaningful relationship with Talia she didn’t know she needed, and a reason to fight for her life. The pair set out to complete everything on the list. Her daughter, Talia (Sylvia Kwan), presses her birth mother to create a bucket list once she hears the devastating news. Brenda Lee (Hu) is prompted to look for the daughter she gave up for adoption decades ago after being diagnosed with breast cancer. It is not a question of whether or not to make a bucket list with the Lifetime movie. If Doherty had to put something on a bucket list, it would be that she would just keep living. I think for me, I just think a bucket list is odd in my particular situation because it means that I’m sort of trying to check things off before my time runs out,” Doherty says. Hu has put together a massive bucket list over the past 30 years.ĭoherty has gone in the opposite direction. The stars of the made-for-cable production have very different views on making lists of things to be done during a person’s lifetime. Kelly Hu and Shannen Doherty star in the new Lifetime movie, “List of a Lifetime,” which examines what happens when a woman – who has been diagnosed with cancer and finds the daughter she gave up for adoption – makes a bucket list.
