“But we stayed in touch, and [Yo] saw me last year in a play called ‘Man of God’ that ran at the Geffen [Playhouse] and at Williamstown Theater Festival,” adds Yoo. “And I think from seeing that, [Yo] felt like I could be a fit for Hayoung.”
“The thing that stuck with me is how simple Hayoung’s dreams are,” says Yoo of the story’s resonance. “A lot of times in Hollywood films or in American films in general, [the main characters] want to be the biggest and the best and the brightest at whatever they’re striving towards. But Hayoung really just wants simple things. She wants air conditioning in her house. She wants her family to be together. She wants a two-car garage.
Yoo describes “Expats,” adapted from a novel by Janice Y.K. Lee, as a “once-in-a-lifetime” experience. “It’s not often you get an opportunity to be in a show opposite Nicole Kidman and to go and shoot in Hong Kong for six months,” she says. “It was a really difficult role and the show is not a lighthearted show, but it was a very fulfilling process for me.”
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