We chat with Lukita Maxwell, the half-Asian star of teen series Generation

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Born in Jakarta, Indonesia, Lukita Maxwell's family moved to the US when she was younger. Maxwell speaks a bit of Bahasa Indonesia in the series, which hints at her Asian heritage – she's half-Chinese and half-Caucasian.

SINGAPORE — HBO's edgy teen dramedy, Generation , has gotten attention for feeling true to the way that Gen Z thinks and behaves, and also for its diverse LGBTQ representation in portraying a generation that is much more open about their queer identities.

The first half of the season culminated in the disparate group of high school students finally dealing with Delilah's newborn baby. It was a touching episode as the whole gang chipped in to help Delilah as she made the fateful decision to give up her child to the state's care at a fire station. Maxwell said about Generation and her character, "I think the Barnzes had this very clear vision of how they wanted to portray perspective and point of view , with all of these characters, and show this unique adolescent Gen Z perspective for the first time... At the beginning of this series, Delilah was not really friends with any of these other characters.

Maxwell revealed that her character is biracial, like her, and that we'll see her parents in the back half of the show. Asked about her Asian heritage, she said, "My mother was born and raised in Indonesia, and so was I. I grew up in an Indonesian household with Cantonese, Hokkien and Mandarin-speaking parents and grandparents, and I grew up speaking Bahasa . Bahasa was my first language, and when I moved to the States, I definitely lost a little bit of it.

 

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