Summary
Rosalind Chao started her career as a child actor, sharing a scene with both Lucille Ball and James Hong in her first TV gig. Most recently she’s found herself a bit of a fixture on Netflix, having played key roles in two of the streaming service’S most notable series.
Rosalind Chao stars in the new series of "Sweet Tooth" The actress says she was moved by the first season of the show. Chao says she's in contact with the writer of the original source material.
RC: “I did a thing called Laundromat, and in that, I was pretty awful! But this one… Yeah, she’s pretty awful. She’'s terrible. And it’t delicious. But one thing is the way people react to you while you’re in the get-up. She's scary! So the second they say, “Cut!” it takes people a few minutes to realize I’m not that lady. I have to be extra nice.”
RC: I think Yeh went through extreme trauma and was raised in an environment of persecution followed by isolation. I think it was really all about survival for her. She lost all faith in humanity. She doesn’t see them as humans.
Actor says he knew it was going to be the worst. He says he was a baby when the film was made, so much so that they drew his boobs in.
RC: I was a kid, I don’t really remember that much. But Island Of Beautiful Women I remember more, because it was in Hawaii, and my parents were there and stopping all my fun. I remember that very well.
I was six months pregnant when I was cast in that one, and we thought I was going to have the baby long before we started shooting. I remember the shirt I had, it had, like, breast milk on it, [Laughs.] I had given birth wearing that!
“I’m not on my phone that much,” says the actor. “I don’t like to be on the phone.”
“I’ve done a British accent. Why can’t I do a Chinese accent? Or a Korean accent? That was really fun. Nahnatchka Khan was a very fun director to work for”
I interviewed Krysten Ritter for this feature when the series premiered, so I was a fan from the get-go to the series’s cancellation. I remember I had laryngitis while we were filming that, and I said, “What about if I don’t have an accent, that I’m faking it? Can I just do one take like that?”
“I’ll do anything for Mark. I think he’s such a fun director. And the one thing that I will brag about is that I’m very good at ADR, but I couldn’t make that work. It just couldn”t fit. So we scrapped that. But then you know that last wedding scene? I wasn’'t available when they were shooting that scene, so I originally wasn�’n't in it, butI got a call.
Also, Vincent Ward, who was known as an enfant terrible, he’s a New Zealand director. I spent a lot of time with him, because they would push us out on the boat and do all the special effects, and we’d wait basically all day. So I got to know what he was like when people weren’t around. And I can honestly tell you that he”s one of the most thoughtful, kindest, philosophical people.
“I don’t watch anything I’m in. So that’s my other excuse, too. Unless I�’re not in it much, but even then I go like this”
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley is best known for her roles on "M*A*S*H" and "AfterMASH" She also appeared on "Jeopardy!"
RC: I got hired, and then I got fired—unbeknownst to me—when my paperwork came in. They basically said that I needed to be 10 years older than I actually was to be able to keep the part. I obviously wanted a job, so I said whatever they needed me to say.
