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Chelsea Clark on how Ginny & Georgia mirrors her biracial struggles as Filipino Canadian

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Yong Chavez | TFC News Hollywood

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Photo credit: Netflix " Ginny="" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2023/tfc/02/24/ginny-and-georgia-courtesy-netflix-1.jpg"/><figcaption><em>Netflix &quot;Ginny &amp; Georgia&quot;</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>&#x27;Ginny &amp; Georgia&#x27; is one of Netflix&#x27;s most popular shows largely due to its audience relating to its frank depiction of some uncomfortable truths about young adulthood and mother and daughter relationships.</p><p>Even its cast members, including Filipina-Canadian actress Chelsea Clark, identify with the characters.</p><p>&quot;Growing up, I had a very similar experience in the sense that the school that I went to was very divided. Not purposefully, but I think there was a lot of pressure put on to me, and I feel like it&#x27;s the same as what you see in Ginny &amp; Georgia,&quot; Clark said. &quot;There&#x27;s a lot of pressure put on Ginny to kind of mold to whatever group she&#x27;s a part of, and become the more like digestible version of herself, and I feel like growing up that&#x27;s what I had to do a lot. There&#x27;s a lot of times where my friends would make really weird comments, that they did not mean in the slightest ways but they didn&#x27;t see how that is just something that would affect me so deeply.&quot;</p><div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Ginny &amp; Georgia. Photo credit: Netflix " Ginny="" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2023/tfc/02/24/ginny-and-georgia-courtesy-netflix-2.jpg"/><figcaption><em>Netflix &quot;Ginny &amp; Georgia&quot;</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>Unlike the usual mother-and-daughter stories where there’s a dominant point of view, the young-adult drama, created by Sarah Lampert, encourages empathy for the characters by showing different sides.</p><p>Clark noted, &quot;I think a mother -and-daughter relationship is always so complicated and always so important to dive into because there&#x27;s so many shows that just always pit women against each other. And so I think it&#x27;s really nice, because of course there&#x27;s conflict, but I think the nice thing is that the point of the show isn&#x27;t to have them fighting against each other. It&#x27;s to show both sides of the world that Georgia lives in, the world that Ginny lives in. You really don&#x27;t know what somebody else is going through and you really don&#x27;t see how something that affects you so deeply could not even be on somebody else&#x27;s radar.&quot;</p><div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Credit: Netflix " Ginny="" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2023/tfc/02/24/ginny-and-georgia-courtesy-netflix-3.jpg"/><figcaption><em>Netflix &quot;Ginny &amp; Georgia&quot;</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>The young star&#x27;s mother Gigi Brondial Clark is from Bicol, moved to Canada when she was 21, and helped raise her siblings.</p><p>&quot;She really established values in me of community and celebrating each other, and being supportive and being a good, kind-hearted person, and treat others the way you want to be treated. So my mom was definitely at the forefront of that.&quot;</p><div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Chelsea Clark" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2023/tfc/02/24/chelsea-clark-1.png"/><figcaption><em>Chelsea Clark</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>Born in Toronto, Clark started in musical theater and transitioned to film and TV acting later on. She was in Degrassi: Next Class and is a recurring character in the CW series “Kung Fu”.</p><p>&quot;It&#x27;s really funny growing up before I even started acting, back when I was just doing voice and piano, my aunt and my mom and my Lola would all be like: Look, everybody&#x27;s crying in this movie, if you can&#x27;t cry on command, then you won&#x27;t be able to make it so you better learn how to cry on command. I can cry on command now so they weren&#x27;t wrong,&quot; Clark quipped.</p><div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img alt="Credit: Chelsea Clark" src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2023/tfc/02/24/chelsea-clark-2.png"/><figcaption><em>Chelsea Clark</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>The actress is also an international dragon boat racing champion, a sport she got into in college. She is likewise establishing herself as a writer and producer.</p><p>&#x27;Ginny &amp; Georgia&#x27; also stars Filipino actor Alex Mallari Jr. in a recurring role as a private investigator. The show&#x27;s cast is led by Brianne Howey and Antonia Gent who play the title roles.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qSQNvt1iuDE?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more News on <a href="https://www.iwanttfc.com/#!/browse/Genres/News/tag_id_genres/id_news" target="_blank">iWantTFC</a></div>

Filipino Canadian Chelsea Clark is one of the regular cast members of the popular Netflix series 'Ginny & Georgia'. 