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\u201cWhen I opened that page and saw that her name is a Korean name,\u201d Sandra Oh tells me over Zoom, \u201cIt really righted something in myself. I recognized it because the character was recognizing me. So the way that I was able to meet the character was much more curious, much more open.\u201dThere\u2019s a story Oh tells about realizing that she was being asked to play the initially mild-mannered MI6 agent Eve Polastri, the lead character in Killing Eve. Even after decades of acting, five Emmy nominations, and a Golden Globe win, she initially couldn\u2019t understand which role she was being offered in the gruesome and sexy BBC psycho-drama. She\u2019d played sidekicks and best friends, teachers and politicians. But not since her early days in the Canadian film and television scene of the 1990s had she played a title character. \u201cWhen I started working professionally, I was about 14, 15. Immediately, I could never go for any lead parts. As a young person of color, your world is being shaped deeply unconsciously,\u201d says Oh, who was raised in Ottawa by her Korean immigrant parents. \u201cIt takes a lifetime to free yourself from your own diminished sense of possibility.\u201d But this isn\u2019t the story of Sandra Oh being offered her first series lead role\u2014this is the story of Sandra Oh being offered what would become her second series lead role. By the time the script for Netflix\u2019s campus dramedy The Chair crossed her path, a few years of post Killing-Eve accolades… Click below to read the full story from Esquire
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\u201cWhen I opened that page and saw that her name is a Korean name,\u201d Sandra Oh tells me over Zoom, \u201cIt really righted something in myself. I recognized it because the character was recognizing me. 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