After Chandler succeeds in solving a mythical task of carefully carrying a cup of water while traversing through a dangerous cave,[25] a high priest says to Kee that magnificent Americans have so much power but also, so little understanding of what to do with them.

[47][48][49] A Los Angeles Daily News article dated on March 25, 1986, announced[50] Charlotte Lewis as the final choice for the role of Kee Nang and claimed it would be the “first time Eddie Murphy has been romantically involved on screen.” The casting director for Pirates recommended her The Golden Child.

In actuality, the Tibet as seen in The Golden Child was to be a set at Paramount, with a little location shooting at a ski resort called Mammoth Mountain five hours from Los Angeles.

In the scene where Sardo is the aiming the crossbow at Chandler as he's running, Kee can be spotted[56] hiding behind a post, seemingly looking to the side and waiting for her turn to get into the shot.

Aiden Mason of TV Overmind suggested[57] that Kee Nang bore similarities to Chun-Li from Capcom's Street Fighter video game series.

In August 2020, Lovell Porter from the website Blaque Rabbit, suggested[26] that Jessica Henwick should play Kee Nang in a hypothetical remake[58] of The Golden Child.

Dave Kehr of the Chicago Tribune said[59] that Eddie Murphy's companion as played by Charlotte Lewis, is a beautiful Eurasian woman who leaps, chops and backflips with all the unflappable springiness of Bruce Lee, but director Michael Ritchie employs her chiefly as cheesecake.

Michael Wilmington of the Los Angeles Times wrote[63] that as the inscrutable kung fu princess Kee Nang, the fetching Charlotte Lewis hardly qualifies as a straight woman to Eddie Murphy.

[64] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times said[65] that Lewis as the preternaturally beautiful heroine Kee Nang, won her an audience of dozens in Roman Polanski's Pirates and that The Golden Child will likely do a lot better.

Lewis also according to Ebert, succeeds in keeping a straight face[66] while Eddie Murphy uses her as the subject of speculation, rejection, romance and betrayal, and while she uses her effortless mastery of kung fu to protect him.

Candice Russell of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel believed[67] that the love that Eddie Murphy's Chandler Jarrell feels for Kee Nang is perplexing.

Meanwhile, Paul Attanasio of the Washington Post wrote[70] that Lewis is simply a prop in an affair that is less a romance than an a' la carte order of Murph 'n' Turf.

Janet Maslin of the New York Times said[71] that Charlotte Lewis, who would be better off left to simply stand by and look statuesque, is forced to simulate some exceptionally fake-looking gymnastics.

Nadia Ramoutar in a 2006 study from the University of Florida noted[72] that Charlotte Lewis' character in The Golden Child can leap over tall walls or from high buildings, usually just wearing Eddie Murphy’s shirt and her underwear.

Liz Bourke of Tor.com complained[73] that Kee Nang's role in the film represents a really specific yet irritatingly common brand of seemingly-progressive-but-actually-sexist portrayals of female characters that in her mind, no one seems to have named yet.