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Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Sandra Oh continues her reign on television with The Sympathizer. Having first broken out with the HBO comedy Arliss, Oh has garnered widespread acclaim on both the big and small screens throughout her career with the likes of Grey's Anatomy, for which she landed five Primetime Emmy nominations and won her first Golden Globe, Sideways and Turning Red.
Oh Thinks The Sympathizer Is "A Vital Step" For Vietnamese Representation Unlike many depictions of the Vietnam War era, The Sympathizer aims to focus on the Vietnamese experience, including featuring mostly Vietnamese dialogue for its characters and casting them with authentic actors.
Hoa Xuande: And finally, we have a story that's been told in a way that it puts the Vietnamese people at the center of the story, that are in control of their own actions and their own destinies, right or wrong.
In contrast to Xuande, Oh looked at Ms. Mori's journey as less of a "duality" balance and more as a modern woman who "blooms open" due to her relationship with the Captain. She also thought of Mori's viewpoint as "dated", feeling that it stemmed from the treatment of Asian people in America at the time:
Oh, in particular, found the episode to be "so satisfying" in how it is a "high satire" approach to exploring Hollywood's approach to telling stories within the Vietnam War era, though acknowledged it to be "very painful" for the realistic nature of it.
Sandra Oh: You see certain moments that are so ridiculous, like the woman who's speaking Chinese, or then John Cho's character, where he goes through the list of how many ways he's died. "Yeah, I was killed by this white actor, I was killed by this white actor, I was killed by this white actor." It's hilarious now, because — what we hope is — that doesn't exist, because why? It's not happening in this story that we're making right now.
Sandra Oh: It's enjoyable, and also, I think it's extremely sophisticated and extremely meta. One of the meta things is that Robert Downey Jr, who spent a decade of his life playing Iron Man, playing these archetypes of Western, white patriarchy.
It took me a while to understand that, but once I felt like I got going with him, and once you learn how a director works, and the director works out how you work, you build this shorthand language about trying to create moments in a scene. I was able to do one takes by the end of this, but yeah, he really inspires confidence in you.
The Captain & Ms. Mori's Relationship Will Face One Major Struggle Oh's Ms. Mori serves as a key figure in the Captain's evolution throughout The Sympathizer, introducing him to some of the unique elements of living in the United States and the struggles to come from being an Asian in the country.
But the Captain doesn't even know himself. So, you see her really trying to crack him open, trying to make him more transparent, but he's not willing to. And that ultimately is the reason why I think she moves on to Sonny, who is much more engaged, and much more questioning. He's not willing to answer questions, really answer questions. But I really did love their kind of kinetic attraction.
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