00:00Yeah, when I first read the script, I was quite scared to take on this character.
00:06I was kind of nervous to play like a white power villain, to be completely honest.
00:14And then I realized that my own personal feelings about this character don't matter because this is a piece of
00:21art.
00:21And it's sparking a really important conversation about assimilation and race and the glorification of whiteness.
00:28And yeah, when I my feelings about this character, really, I had to put aside because I was like, this
00:36is a movie that needs to be made.
00:38And it would be an honor to be able to be a part of this project.
00:41Let the record show. Amelie is nothing like Olivia Hamlin.
00:46If Amelie was, we would not be homies. And Amelie is a homie. She's a real one.
00:51I will say I read the script and I was like, absolutely not. This is controversial.
00:56You're going to take a beautiful Asian woman and then replace her midway through the movie.
01:01Like, actually, like you're the actress is gone. I was like, this is controversial.
01:06And like, what am I complaining about? I play the one character that's like kind of sane.
01:10I had like no stakes, but I had a great conversation with Amy about the film.
01:16And we were talking, getting to know each other. She's asking me, what are my favorite films?
01:20And we had this conversation about how, like the best movies, the ones that I love so much are the
01:26ones that are controversial because they, like Amelie said, spark conversation.
01:32And guaranteed, no matter what, like this movie will spark lots of conversation between people.
01:38And I think that is what art is. That is what great filmmaking is.
01:43And yeah, that advice I'm definitely going to take with me for the rest of my career because Amy's right.
01:48Yeah, it's the whole point is to be controversial. You know, that's, that's cinema.
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