Join Facebook to connect with Zoë Chao and others you may know. I believe that all of creation and destruction are linked. [2] She received her BA in art history from Brown University and her MFA from the graduate acting program at UCSD.[3]. According to some online sources, Zoë Chao stands at an average height of 5 feet and 7 inches. ( Log Out / Billy (Crudup) I also bonded with. Although Chao doesn't identify as bisexual herself, Lidofsky is queer-identified and Chao appreciates the authenticity her friend writes into the role. I have two living grandparents and a really smart and supportive sister. GETTY IMAGES. How was it working with Richard Linklater and the rest of the cast? A. She is 34 years old of age. Love Life is an anthology series that centers on Darby Carter, it’s an exploration of the many love relationships she has over the course of a decade, there are familial, romantic loves and friendships that evolve and endure. Everyone who is down there is there for a reason — you have to be. ZC: Sometimes I think about Soo-Lin and I do think that wherever she is, her wheels are turning. I Am Love. But as I made my way through the first season of the flagship of HBO Max’s initial slate, I couldn’t help but wonder: It has sex, and there’s a city, but why is it that “Love Life” feels so devoid of both love and life? A. I am overwhelmingly grateful that we’re safe and sound, but it feels like there’s this collective heartbreak that the world is experiencing, for those who’ve passed, and also for those who are not supported during this crisis. For Darby (Kendrick), who moved to New York to “find herself” and then found herself an impossibly cool career and an apartment that’s just impossible, that journey begins with Augie (Jin Ha of “Devs”) and moves on through a predictable stable of guys (and only guys)—there’s the handsome older man, the charismatic user, the hot dum-dum who isn’t boyfriend material, the high school crush with whom she unexpectedly reconnects, the list goes on. [6], During the filming of Strangers, Chao had to move from New York City to Los Angeles. [Linklater] is an incredible filmmaker so just to be on his set and to be in rehearsals with him and hear him talk about the scenes and characters, it was just an absolute dream. She is Anna Kendrick’s roommate in the anthology series Love Life (HBO Max). It was a video titled What Draws Us Together, What Drives Us Apart. A. "I had a lot of apprehension about playing someone who is bisexual," she told NBC News in an interview last year. But there was this period of time where I felt really lost because I couldn’t do what I was trained to do. Sign up for our COVID-19 newsletter to stay up-to-date on the latest coronavirus news throughout New York City. Zoë Chao is actually a lifelong pal of Lidofsky's (they met in nursery school! (Chao is bi-racial, with a white mom and a Chinese dad.) She is a doctor and Maggie’s roommate, she is her touchstone and sounding board, she is Maggie’s connection to the world outside of the music industry and she keeps Maggie grounded. I think oftentimes we see movies where mothers and daughters are at war with each other and this is such a beautiful portrait of a mother and daughter who really care about each other and are learning each other. Clearly the black and brown communities are up against blatant racism, while it is sometimes hard to articulate Asian-American trials and tribulations, because, in comparison to black and brown experiences, they can deemed less extreme, in that we are considered the so called “model minority.” But I appreciate that there’s now more space to examine the ways in which that characterization has been really harmful and inaccurate. 13.4k Followers, 1,992 Following, 527 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Zoë Chao (@zchao) This TV show on Facebook Watch called Strangers – their first scripted comedy that my best friend wrote. Honestly, it was really odd to have someone you idolize in front of the camera and then behind the camera and then be like, “OK, guess I have to go to work now.”. Chao has participated in theatre productions, like La Jolla Playhouses' Sideways, Surf Report, and WoW Festivals' Our Town. But honestly what drew me to it is that I went to marine biology camp as a kid. So I really relate to that, not only as an artist but just as a woman and a person. The inspiring film is based on the wildly popular novel by Maria Semple, and the cast features more talent in one place than the seating chart at the Academy Awards. July 18, 2018. It was also the beginning of this really positive change of including more ethnically diverse faces, and foregrounding them as the main character. If that sounds backward, if it seems like there should be no need to link them because they’re all part of Darby’s story, then congratulations, you have arrived at precisely the problem with “Love Life.” Despite Kendrick’s best efforts, it’s hard to shake the feeling that this is simply a collection of short stories in which the same person happens to figure, without any connective tissue. She’s the first Asian-American actress to be nominated for a lead [in Killing Eve]. Zoë Chao Height. Film highlights include All That Heaven Allows (1955), There’s Always Tomorrow (1956), and Magnificent Obsession (1954). I was really excited to work with a gay woman of color, who’s been working for decades in this industry and has done really meaningful work, like her first film Chutney Popcorn (1999) and Late Night (2019), which is so great. I’ve been a huge fan of Rick’s since “Before Sunrise.” That whole trilogy really changed the whole way I thought about filmmaking and certainly “Boyhood” as well. She was so excited about me getting to audition for it and I read it right around when I auditioned for the role. In 2014, she had a recurring role on HBO's The Comeback, starring Lisa Kudrow, where she played an assistant director named Shayna on Valerie Cherish's fictional series Seeing Red. Between Seasons 1 and 2, Isobel and her best friend Cam (played by Search Party's Meredith Hagner) decide to move from Los Angeles to New York. the series had been green-lit for a second season, she told NBC News in an interview last year. He’s so confident and clear and laid-back. When I read the sides I just knew that there was a part of me that really wanted to do this. TB: One of the things I got to learn a lot about Becky and her work and just people that get to go to the South Pole, it is such important work and it’s such difficult work to even get those passes to go. The OA (2016-) is a Netflix sci-fi drama series starring actress and show’s co-creator Brit Marling as Prairie Johnson, a woman who resurfaces after having been missing for seven years. Q. Additionally, she appeared in Ensemble Theatre Company's Amadeus. Interconnectedness leads to empathy. 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