Hong Chau is having a moment. But Chau has been on the hype train before, and she’s not necessarily purchasing a ticket this time around.
backlash, it sounds like she’s still a bit stung. “I felt like the people who were reallyand her place within society... [came] from a more privileged background,” she says in defense of her character, Ngoc Lan. “Nobody went and asked what the ladies who work at the nail salon [thought about it], or the people who worked in the kitchens of all of these restaurants.
“I just wished that whatever people’s little qualms were about the film or my performance, that they could have acknowledged that a little bit more,” Chau laments. “Maybe, with time, it’ll get a more sympathetic reception.”
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