Sandra Oh dreams of portraying an Asian American in an Asian American story

Sandra Oh is interested in playing more characters that explore Asian American stories, she said in The Hollywood Reporter’s podcast, Awards Chatter.

"I’d say now and at this point in my career, specifically wanting to return to only playing specifically Asian characters,” the Killing Eve actress told host Scott Feinberg, becase the characters she is best known for, were originally written for white characters. Only after she was cast, was she able to tailor the character to her Korean heritage.

Oh, whose popularity grew playing an Asian American doctor in the long-running Grey's Anatomy, is excited about where stories are headed for Asian characters in the entertainment industry. Telling more than just white Americans’ stories gives a fuller picture of America.

The Asian Canadian actress has been nominated for an Emmy for her role in BBC's Killing Eve.

“I hope where we are now moving towards and going back to not a type of assimilation where it is embracing a certain type of mainstream, which is the white mainstream,” she said. “It’s to actually embrace our own accents, our own histories, our own culture. And that’s, it’s a big shift because it’s really a shift in writing as well.”

“We’re just in a place right now, because I feel hopefully continuing on with the Parasite wave, and the Crazy Rich Asians wave,” Oh said. “Let’s hope that there’s still a deep interest in a real movement to have Asian American stories really be a larger thread in the fabric of American culture, and just Western culture.”