Meet Kelly Yu from Moonfall, the Chinese actress and musician starring in Roland Emmerich’s new sci-fi disaster movie
- Kelly Yu, who has worked mostly in Asia, talks about her first American film and how Covid-19 has made it harder to work overseas
- Yu is also a musician who studied at Boston’s Berklee College of Music, and her new album Intermezzo was released in September 2021
The Earth’s surface buckles in Moonfall, the latest sci-fi disaster epic from Roland Emmerich that is opening this week in cinemas around the world.
Moonfall is Kelly Yu’s first American film. The actor and musician has built a career in Asia working in film and TV and releasing several albums.
“I was cast by Roland very quickly,” she tells the Post via Zoom from China, where she is working on her latest project. “We had a five-minute interview on Zoom. I play an exchange student who’s staying with Halle’s family because she’s a workaholic and needs help with her son Jimmy.”
Yu bonded quickly with Zayn Maloney, who plays Jimmy. She says Berry was “super sweet,” and liked talking about her family. Most of Yu’s scenes were with Charlie Plummer, who was cast as Patrick Wilson’s errant son Sonny.
