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Yes, they came as refugees, but on ‘Queen Sugar’ this family from Vietnam gets to be so much more

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“The fact that the director allowed me to breathe and thought me worthy to take up space, it’s such a simple, subtle thing, but it was startling to me,” says Elyse Dinh who plays Mrs. Phan.

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