Sherlock that was criticised as being racially insensitive.The actress spoke in a new interview about her casting in the Chinatown-set episode as a stereotypical damsel in distress that some fans and critics had labelled as a tone-deaf exercise in orientalism.In a Vogue interview Chan explained that she’d spent years taking “every job going – bit parts, one line parts, anything” in order to establish herself as a successful English actress.