00:00 I think with Lolo and Audrey, we just have so much
00:02 multi-dimensionalness, there's so much humor,
00:05 heart, and horniness, these beasts that have been dying
00:09 to be unleashed, you know?
00:11 In both characters, I think.
00:13 - I think that what's fun about playing,
00:17 that's probably one of my prerequisites now,
00:19 is I'm really drawn to characters that are flawed
00:22 and are messy, and those, you know,
00:25 Beef was the same way, seeing characters like that,
00:27 Asian-Americans who have those kinds of qualities.
00:30 I love, because when a character has a great,
00:34 not a great flaw, but flaw,
00:35 when they're messy and chaotic at first,
00:38 that means that they have an arc to,
00:41 an actual trajectory and a through line, you know?
00:43 They can get somewhere else by the end of the movie,
00:46 and playing a character that is polished
00:48 or is one-dimensional doesn't give you the same opportunity
00:51 to explore what a human goes through,
00:53 to become another person, or just to grow,
00:57 and to figure out who they are.
00:58 - At the time, you know,
01:00 Deadeye is sort of going through a gender journey.
01:03 It's not that explicit, but it's sort of,
01:05 I know it as the actor and the creators all knew it,
01:07 that they weren't really around people
01:10 that really understood them, and sort of by the end,
01:12 after finding people that got them
01:13 and feeling accepted by their peers,
01:15 they take different pronouns,
01:17 and that was happening in my real life, in real time,
01:21 where I was really figuring out stuff about my gender,
01:24 and had moved to New York and was away from my family,
01:27 and started to really feel seen for who I am.
01:30 - Yeah, you know, the journey that the characters go on
01:33 is not unique to the Asian American experience.
01:36 I'm Chinese Malaysian, I'm an immigrant,
01:38 but most people in the world have had a similar experience
01:42 of feeling that you don't quite belong
01:45 in the space that you now live in,
01:48 and we all have different journeys that we've been on
01:52 to try to fit into that space,
01:53 whether we feel like we have to prove ourselves,
01:56 or we have to act a certain way,
01:57 or we have to kind of disavow who we actually are.
02:01 And at the end of the day, for them,
02:03 it's about finding their own people,
02:05 and the moment they find their pocket
02:07 and the people that make them feel whole,
02:09 that they're always home.
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