The actress took Broadway, then Paris. Now, she heads to Beijing for Joy Ride, this summer’s raunchiest R-rated buddy comedy.
Hsu, who has done both Broadway and experimental theater — and who would later audition for Mindy in
— met Park in a workshop around that time. She remembers Park was squeezing in the workshop between amatinee and an evening performance. “Broadway is crazy like that. There’s just nothing harder,” says Hsu. “You’re singing. You’re dancing. You’re kicking your face for two and a half hours. If your show is in the running for a Tony, you doat 5 a.m.” That’s so grueling, I say. “It is,” says Hsu, “but it trains you to be sort of impenetrable.
Park used to pride herself on being that way. She loved when people said, “Ashley has an endless battery.” The same week she started rehearsals fora musical that would later go to Broadway; she would rehearse for eight hours, then race across town to perform. She was also starting to go for onscreen parts. When she bookedher agents encouraged her to make a hard break from the stage: “They were like, ‘You don’t see that you’re giving so much more to that building than you’re getting out of it.
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