"Crazy Rich Asians" star Gemma Chan grew up in London and after graduating from Oxford with a law degree worked for a while for Big Law firm Slaughter & May.

However, modelling and acting called and she soon found herself acting in various films, ranging from horror to thriller, to 'Doctor Who', before the 'Crazy Rich' success propelled her into the international limelight.

But her legal career has helped her with her acting career, despite the fact that she considers herself someone who would not have made a great lawyer.

The actress, who played Astrid Leong in last year’s blockbuster hit, graced the cover of Modern Luxury magazine’s March issue and revealed that not only does she have a law degree from Oxford University, but her education actually is useful in her current profession.  

“It is quite helpful with the memorization, I had to learn about 2,000 cases by heart, so I am fairly good at learning scripts quickly. On the whole, it is quite a different part of the brain: Law is very analytical, and acting is more instinctive and emotionally driven,” Chan, who’s also in “Captain Marvel,” told the outlet. “But, it does come in handy with learning lines ― and reading my own contract.”

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Chan said in the interview that while she enjoyed the “challenge” of earning her degree, she thinks she would’ve made a “pretty miserable lawyer.”

She also said that while she’d been involved in drama and music since she was a kid, she didn’t view acting as a viable career until later on in life. She eventually auditioned for drama school in secret.

Because of the lack of Asian representation on the big screen, she told The Los Angeles Times that her father questioned whether she’d be able to nab enough jobs. 

“[My] dad said to me, ‘It doesn’t matter how good you are or how talented you are — how many faces do you see on the screen that look like ours? You won’t get enough work,’” the actress told the outlet in August. “I said, ‘Dad, I just want to be part of a change.’ ”

The actress, who lived with English comedian Jack Whitehall for several years is single, happy and confidently working with the knowledge that being beautiful and bright, with a law degree behind her, has helped provide the smarts to make her career choices with confidence.