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Chin Han, 53, has appeared in blockbusters including _The Dark Knight,_ _Contagion_ and _Captain America: The Winter Soldier,_ and is the first Singaporean actor invited to join the Academy

of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He currently stars alongside Michelle Yeoh in Disney+’s_ American Born Chinese,_ based on the graphic novel by Gene Luen Yang. Han talked to AARP about

the audition that changed his life, pet sitting for friends and whom he’d love to do the splits with in a movie.  WAS IT A DIFFICULT DECISION TO LEAVE SINGAPORE FOR HOLLYWOOD? I don't

think it was so much a decision —  you throw the dice and you see what happens. I had a call from my then-friend and manager that he set up a meeting for this secret project, which turned

out to be the sequel to _Batman Begins_ [_The Dark Knight_]. Then it was a question of whether I could make it to Los Angeles in time for the audition, because I was in Singapore. That

decision took all of 20 minutes, and then I got a plane ticket. I rushed to the airport within a few hours. Then I was in Los Angeles, jet-lagged, worse for wear, and stepped into the office

of [casting director] John Papsidera — where there were dozens of people — and did the audition that pretty much changed the course of my life. WERE YOU A FAN OF COMIC BOOKS GROWING UP? Yes

I was, but I loved novels, which is why, more than comic books, I like graphic novels. Kind of appropriate that I'm now on_ American Born Chinese,_ which is a much-loved graphic novel

here in the U.S. I had actually not heard of it, not having grown up in the U.S., but when I was doing my research on the book, I realized that a lot of my American friends had read it in

school and loved it. Graphic novels were what I grew up with, and in particular Frank Miller’s and Alan Moore’s stuff. So when I got a chance to do _The Dark Knight_ — which actually is

based on _The Dark Knight,_ the graphic novel — that was just thrilling. IF YOU COULD HAVE A SUPERPOWER, WHICH WOULD YOU WANT TO HAVE? I would love to be invisible, because as an actor, you

are really a student of the human condition. When you start out as a young thespian, a luxury that you have and you can enjoy [is] going to places to observe people. I remember acting

exercises that we used to do where we would go to places and then make a note of behavior and accents. Now, obviously, it’s a little trickier to do when you’re a bit more recognizable. Being

invisible might be a good thing.