you be your own girl and you be brilliant.

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What you were saying about filling up the spaces for people to feel comfortable, I deeply relate to that. And I’m sure a big part of it has been because when you’re the only one on set who looks like you, just very unconsciously, I can’t really tell you what it is, I naturally try to make that space smooth, make that space safe or make that space fun. Not only for the other person but honestly probably for myself as well. I don’t know, but I do think that being that sole person in a different culture, a different country, somehow affected Eve quite deeply.

Sandra Oh & Kerry Washington - Actors on Actors

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Sandra Oh and Sharon Choi talking about Bong Joon-ho.

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Sandra Oh in Meditation Park (2017)

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[Sandra’s] lack of social-media proficiency (even just talking about how to use TikTok makes her recoil and slide down her chair with mock fear) means that big news, like the announcement of her new show, The Chair, which she stars in and is an executive producer for, didn’t show up on her feed for any of her 3.4 million Instagram followers to see. “I know I’m supposed to do something with the pictures!” she says. “But then I’ve left it to the next day, and I think it’s too late… and then a week goes by and it’s even later, and who’s going to care now? I keep missing the window.” When reminded of a little something called a #tbt post or a #latergram or the ability to post something quickly as an Insta story, she shakes her head and says, “I am the classic ‘aunt’ who can’t make things work” and then does an imitation: “Honeeeey? Can you make it work? I don’t know what this is.”

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SANDRA OH as CRISTINA YANG Grey’s Anatomy – 1x04

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Sandra Oh in Last Night (1998)

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Sandra Oh as Cristina Yang in the first episode of Grey’s Anatomy

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Sandra Oh in The Red Violin (1998)

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Sandra Oh doing her first live on Instagram.

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Sandra Oh behind the scenes of ELLE Canada’s cover shoot.

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Sandra Oh for Elle Canada.

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“But I’m in a place in my career now where I am specifically interested in roles that explore a character’s race,” says Oh. “Because I can—and because I want our conversations to eventually move to a place that recognizes that it’s important. Let’s say it’s a show about a fashion magazine and the editor’s Black. You can’t just write this character without having the background of who she is. But that has been the primary storytelling for as long as we’ve been around.” – Sandra Oh for Elle Canada.

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Honestly the only thing you can do is live moment by moment, right? It’s very hard to practice that in everyday life. It really is. But right now I think it’s actually essential to live in that space, because the unknown is so massive. What we’re leaning on now are our relationships. Even if we don’t keep it up every week when we get through this — and we will — it’s about deepening our understanding of the value of our relationships with the people we love. Maybe this is a reminder that we all needed to hear.

Sandra Oh for PEOPLE’s 2020 Most Beautiful Issue.

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“It’s a mandate in the Canadian government that you see multiculturalism. This was in the mid-80s, so I was cast — the smallest part — but still I’m there, I’m working. I’m learning all this stuff and it just benefited me. […] And coming here, I could just feel the weight of the system that you just know as a woman and as a woman who is not white that there is a weight and a harder, potentially more challenging road to get what you want. And that was the case.”

Sandra Oh for The Inclusive

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Sandra: (…) I created my own back story for Patti. Frances and I met in college, I was in love with her at one point —

Sandra Oh as Patti and Diane Lane as Frances in Under The Tuscan Sun (2003)

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Sandra Oh for Porter

Sandra Oh is a trooper, too: bristling with energy, hyper-engaged, determined to be authentic and squeeze every drop out of life. She doesn’t do many interviews. I suspect their one-sidedness bores her. But conversations, where she can actually learn things about other people, those she likes.

“You’ll have to ask Phoebe Waller-Bridge how my hair became a narrative point in Killing Eve [laughs]. It’s like there’s something free or wild about Eve’s nature that I do think comes out in the hair.” (x)