Did you ever think you would end up in a film alongside Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet?
No way. Tiger Lily is a very small part, but it was still amazing to be involved in the film. Actually, what was strange was that when I got the part as Tiger Lily in Finding Neverland, I was actually working as an usher at the Duke Of York Theatre in London. That was the theatre in which JM Barrie’s Peter Pan was first performed. Did you have to audition? Yes, but because there weren’t any lines for Tiger Lily in the screenplay, the audition had more to do with physical acting. The film focuses on JM Barrie (Johnny Depp) and the fantasy world he created that would become Neverland, rather than the story of Peter Pan. Tiger Lily just appears in his imagination and doesn’t say anything. They had really been looking for actors with dance experience, so my dance training helped. It had a lot to do with my looks as well, I’m Philippino and I guess they thought I looked like her. What happened when you were on set? For the first two weeks on set, a choreographer came in to create a dance ro
