No One Can Say “Sorry” Quite Like A Canadian - Sandra Oh

Welcome everyone, my first guest tonight is an actor you know from Gray's Anatomy, killing Eve and the chair, please welcome back to the Late Show Sandra, oh, dare me, what an incredible audience. Thank you very much for that greeting, yes, watch live, live, live audience. the audience is lovely Audi is the best um it's lovely to see you we don't see you enough but you're not in New York enough but you have you have one people know you from televisions and from movies but you're here in the city Off Broadway to do a live show um yeah I'm I'm I'm here actually we just started rehearsals like this week.

I'm on my third day, but I'm doing a play at the Atlantic Theater called The Welin uh written by lcy Kirkwood and directed by Sarah Benson and it's opening at the end of May and it's opening in June please come you have to come. Oh, sure, I'd love to. I love making, I mean, huh? Is theater a totally different Beast? You know, because it's a continuous performance for an audience. How does it feel different for you as a performer to do that versus stopping and starting TV and Well, it's like that, honestly, when I went on stage, I mean, on stage, I feel you good and that kind of uh uh, that kind of dynamic, it informs everything and drives everything, whether it's a comedy drama, it just gives you energy and it's like it's sure that this is the reason why you do it too, you know what I mean, oh, one of The main reasons why I accepted the Esange gig, it's great, it's fantastic, yeah, what about what I want to say? but there is another character in any space in New York and that is the city itself, how do you like to live in New York? and can you walk to work?

Oh my God, this is the dream, okay, so this is the Dream, so imagine yourself here. I'm like 8 years old. I'm in a small town in Canada, right, and yeah, okay, Canadians and everything I want to do. I never really thought that I like him. I didn't know what Los Angeles was. I didn't really care about television or movies, all I wanted to do was be in New York and be a theater actor, so to get on the subway, have lunch and feel so good walking to a rehearsal, it's great. It's the dream, I love it, what are we going to prepare for lunch?

What are we going to pack? Okay, you want to know, because it's, I always have my yogurt, uh, my non-dairy yogurt, and then I always have peppers, maybe a papaya, sliced ​​peppers, yes, sliced ​​peppers. health no no yes you have to do it. I'm obsessed with eating all the time because it has to be healthy because you know you're using your brain and also all the feelings are happening and you're on fire. a lot of energy the instrument itself, I went to drama school yes exactly the instrument the instrument exactly well we're in Canada here for a second Can I ask you a question about all of you because I'm from the south okay and the people?

I think we are polite, yes you are, but we are very passive-aggressive because we say things like "bless your heart", "I will pray for you" or something like that. Canadians have a reputation for being very friendly, they are actually very friendly, yes we are. We're right, but no one can say

sorry

like a Canadian, and to do that, it means a lot of things, I mean, oh, I'm

sorry

, it's like, I hate what you just did, but I'm not going to say anything, um, that's something. So. like a sorry, that's passive-aggressive maybe passive-aggressive, that's bless your heart, but that's like a real character thing.

I think we really are like that. Well, I like you guys, I'm glad, yeah, we're like you're cool with me. I'm not saying we shouldn't build the wall. Okay, you trained, you went to, you went to theater school too. I went to theater school. She skis easily under the Stars roof. Do you remember two or two totally tired Toads? trying to talk to Tisdale two totally tired toads trying to two totally tired toads trying to trot towards Tisdale Lighting aluminum Lighting aluminum in the middle of the miss with Fierce like Frost and beest dolls and robust like Bast, pushed like urine Me likes to push his fists against the post and still insists that he sees ghosts, that's fantastic, you like that one, did you just mention it?

Yes, I just made it up, honey, no, you just do it, yes, but in drama school, the drama school in Montreal was in France or they allowed you to do it. It was in English, yes, it's the National Theater School, so it was half in French, half in English. I was in the English Department. Okay, it wasn't necessary, it didn't force you to do things in French, no, but it was great. You know, living in Montreal. I don't know if anyone is familiar with Montreal. It is one of the best Canadian cities. In French it is that they threatened to arrest me in Montreal.

You were at the Montreal Theater Festival. You were there for The Fringe at the Montreal Theater Festival. And I was putting up posters for our play Play All Around Montreal and they were in English. Oh really. they were like no because they had to be in both english and french Oh that's true and they were only in english and the cop followed me all over the city and saw that i knocked everyone down are you serious? I guess there's no other crime, either. that's

quite

kqu very K very

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kqu you did it when you were in Canada, huh?

I understand you trained as a clown oh no, I'm sure you must have done well too oh right? We made a lot of masks. we trained and we did a lot of clowns you know what I mean and I know there's a red nose clown and a white face clown ab and which one was you no I did it we did Red Nose we did Red Nose and actually that was one of the little tools I used to make this comedy with Aquafina called Quiz Lady and in my training for it I was always trying to figure out the character because it's such a broad comedy and I'm like, okay, I have to do it.

Find out how I want to do it. I asked a friend of mine. Who teaches clown? Will you help me with my nose to try to discover the broad scope of the character? But like when you rehearsed with the clown, no, yes. so you basically rehearse and go as far as you can, you know, no, I don't know if you guys know, basically, in red nose training, you're the ones on stage. and then your teacher is the principal and they'll just ask you for simple things to do, it's like you know how to move that piece of paper, okay, my clown, my clown, all she did was cry, all I did was cry, all I did was cry. you don't know what's going to come but you also know that it would be like moving that paper and and but but like crying crying crying I love it yes that's funny to me but that's the same thing it's this The same project you did this for is you, Aquafina and the great Paul Ruben, great Paul, you may know him, yes, as PeeWee Herman, yes, that was our first day of filming, first day of filming, D, are you friends with Paul?

If you know. Jendi Angelo, our writer, she wrote this whole part that had to do with Paul and I remember thinking if we had Paul, if Paul was okay with this and then it was like, uh, okay, I guess I'll text him text Paul and Tell Paul, can I send you something? It's okay and you know it was great. She read it immediately. She said I will surely come and play. She came and played to play the first day. It was a great honor and a great honour. It's a privilege to have him in our movie and I mean he's so great and I understand that was the last thing he did, yeah, yeah, oh lovely, so we have to take a short break, but don't go anywhere, we'll be right back. more Sandra or everyone stay