Greta Lee on Straddling the Line Between American and Korean Beauty Ideals

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Greta Lee on Straddling the Line Between American and Korean Beauty Ideals
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The actress talks about the time she got 'The Rachel' haircut.

, a surreal dark comedy about a woman who keeps dying in freak accidents, only to return to the same moment at the same party. If you have seen it, the first thing you remember is Greta Lee, and the second thing you remember is “Sweet birthday,” and the third thing you remember is her perfect cerulean eyeliner, which wings out from the corner of her eye, pivots back, and underlines her eyebrows.

Then again, Lee didn’t consider herself a Korean beauty, either. “There’s a very set standard for what women are expected to look like in South Korea [where Lee’s parents were born]. And it’s even more, I think, restraining and prescriptive than in America. I didn’t fit into that, either, so it kind of just felt like, well, I’m super tan and I’m not cricket-sized like everyone else [in Korea].

Up until this photo was taken, my editors and I were quietly anxious that baby Lee would try to make an early escape and we’d have to call off the shoot. But the shot was got: a languid Lee at her most pregnant, draped in crimson. I tell her that it reminds me of this one bizarre portrait of Nancy Reagan, wherein the former first lady is wearing cheek-to-toe red, sprawled on a couch in her Bel Air mansion, hugging a pillow embroidered with her husband’s initials.

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