Lately, Sandra Oh is everywhere. Perhaps that's an exaggeration, but her face popped out from Entertainment Weekly at me yesterday, a whole blurb devoted to her. A blurb! AND she's beating up a white dude with her purse in the trailer for Sideways, she was in that Under the Tuscan Sun film, and she's got a bumper crop of indie film releases coming up.
I'm actually a huge fan of lists (also tables and Venn diagrams)so here are my top seven reasons why Sandra Oh is cool.
7. She won the Fipa D'Or for Best Actress at Cannes for her starring role as Evelyn Lau, in The Diary of Evelyn Lau.
6. She's Canadian. Something most of us can only aspire to.
5. She's pretty, but not so pretty she doesn't have to be talented, too.
4. She's never played a silent kung-fu ninja dragon lady who throttles her opponents with her inner thighs.
3. She once said, "If there's another @#$% movie or TV show about New York where everyone is white, I'm going to @#$*&ing die. That is so unacceptable."
2. Producers for the HBO series Arli$$ created the role of Rita Wu for her, since the original character was white. Way to get more Asian faces out there!
1. She's in four, count them, four independent films due out next year: Cake, an Untitled Post-9/11 Cab Drama, 3 Needles, and Hard Candy.
So maybe Sandra Oh is not everywhere, but she will be soon. Mark my word.
Posted by jennifer at December 7, 2004 12:32 PM
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