'Past Lives' star thegretalee talks to oddbarnacles about working with Celine Song, her love for Asian cinema, and more.
and those moments of quiet, and really having nowhere to hide.
In terms of this being a love story, Nora is ambitious but conflicted romantically, which is kind of common for the average romantic comedy heroine, though she’s definitely more thoughtful and less spacey than most. How would you describe your character and her circumstances? Some people didn't even realize that I speak Korean — which is wild! But it makes sense. Now that the movie’s done, I've had the pain of missing sitting in my Korean. I'm not speaking it anymore; English is my primary language, so I can understand how that reflects Nora's saying goodbye to her childhood self. It’s painful and complicated.
To answer that, I have to talk about how I feel about American movies and what they can be. For so long, I have privately felt that what makes a universal good story is cultural specificity. That is just the truth: the reality of an accurate depiction of a real person’s life living in America. Frankly, I’ve always been enraged that any story featuring a person that looks like us is a bespoke identity piece over there [] only to be consumed by a certain set of people.
I understand that some people will see it that way and might take the stance of Team Hae Sung or Team Arthur, but I would argue that the thing that stays with them weeks after seeing it is so not that. It’s existential, this idea of how our lives become what they are by the choices we make, the things we say no to to make space for other things, and just having to reconcile that with the fact that — this sounds dark and dramatic — we’re all going to die.
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