Ming-Na Wen plays indelible characters in the worlds of Marvel, Disney, and "Star Wars," but movie and TV stardom never got her out of clearing tables at her family's restaurant. The actor and self-described nerd opens up about trying to fit in as an immigrant kid in Pittsburgh, imagining herself as Han Solo, and the hospitality work that prepared her for Hollywood. She also shares how writing her new instantly bestselling cookbook, Have You Eaten Yet?, meant sharing family secrets and revisiting memories she'd spent years pushing aside.

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