Sandra Oh

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🗓️ 29 August 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Sandra Oh is best known for her role as Dr. Christina Yang on Grey’s Anatomy, which earned her five consecutive Emmy nominations and a Golden Globe award. Since ending her run on that show, she has starred in and executive produced the hit series Killing Eve, hosted the Golden Globes and Saturday Night Live, and been named one of Time Magazine’s “100 Most Influential People.” In this week’s “Sunday Sitdown,” Willie Geist gets together with Oh to talk about that success as well as her latest project, playing a trailblazer in the new Netflix series The Chair.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast.
0:06.5	My thanks is always for clicking and listening along.
0:09.7	My guest this week is a Golden Globe winner and just a delightful person to talk with.
0:15.1	Sandra O she of course became a superstar playing Dr. Kristina Yang for 10 seasons on the television
0:21.1	phenomenon, Grey's Anatomy.
0:24.4	We're moving on and winning that Golden Globe, the acclaimed series Killing Eve.
0:30.1	So today we find Sandra in London where she is shooting the fourth season of Killing
0:35.3	Eve.
0:36.3	We're meeting over Zoom.
0:37.3	I am back above my garage.
0:39.2	We've gotten away from that.
0:40.3	Thank goodness.
0:41.3	Now that the COVID restrictions have dropped a little bit, we can do many of these interviews
0:44.9	in person, but because she's traveling and shooting in London, we are over Zoom.
0:49.6	A great conversation nevertheless about her career.
0:53.0	She is the child of Korean immigrants.
0:55.2	She grew up in Canada.
0:57.8	Her parents did not love her decision to become an actor.
1:00.6	They wanted her to do something more practical.
1:02.6	She explains what that was like, that tension, and then celebrating with her and her parents
1:08.7	as her career took off.
1:11.1	First got really got noticed in a couple of films, namely Sideways, the Oscar-winning
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