Forgive Jamie Chung if she gets animated talking about her latest role.
As soon as she heard her voice coming from one of the characters in “Big Hero 6,” the Brooklyn-based actress fulfilled a dream first stoked when she watched a re-release of “Bambi” in a movie theater when she was just 7 years old.
“For the first 10 minutes at the screening I was like, ‘Oh, my God, this is really happening,'” Chung told the Daily News of becoming an animated Disney character.
Chung may be 31, but she grins like a kid discussing the film opening Friday — in which she voices Go Go Tomago, a tough-as-nails student inventor who joins her friends to become superheroes to save their city — and what it will eventually mean to her future children with fiancé Bryan Greenberg.
“I’ll probably have kids within five years, and I do think it will still be relevant in about 10 years when they’re going to see it,” she said, adding that those tykes will have to wait longer to see her R-rated movies like “The Hangover Part II” (2012) and “Sucker Punch” (2011).
Empowering roles like Go Go also don’t come around very often for a Korean-American actress in a business that isn’t as diverse as it should be, she said.
“It’s unfortunate that it’s still about race, because I feel like those are the kind of walls that I’m always hitting,” said Chung.
While auditioning for a recent part in a sci-fi project, she was told that she didn’t have the right “essence” for the part and that producers would be looking for an African American actress — though they eventually went with a white actress.
“Quite frankly, it’s a show about reproduction and all the last people on Earth and all the characters are white,” she says. “What kind of message is that sending?”
So she’s been going the indie route lately, starring alongside her real-life future husband in three upcoming films — including the romantic movie “It’s Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong,” which she compares to “Before Sunrise.”
“We were quite terrified, because if it sucks, it’s a direct reflection of our relationship,” Chung deadpanned. “And if you don’t feel the chemistry, then we should definitely break up and call the wedding off.”
No matter how well those pictures do, it’s not likely they’ll be able to match the box office (super) power of “Big Hero 6.” How many people can say they’re a friggin’ Disney character — much less an empowered Asian female one that kicks butt?
“I’ve always wanted to play superheroes and I’ve had the opportunity to do that,” she said of her past turn in “Sin City: A Dame to Kill For.” “But I’ve never gotten to play a superhero that’s also a robotics engineer.”
