Sandra Oh is grateful for the Gray’s Anatomy followers who’re nonetheless hoping to see her character, Dr. Cristina Yang, make a return to the present someday sooner or later. Nonetheless, Oh says she would not foresee that return materializing.
The celebrated actress walked the carpet on the premiere screening of HBO’s new spy thriller drama The Sympathizer on the Paramount Theatre in Los Angeles on Tuesday, and she or he spoke with ET’s Kevin Frazier in regards to the persistent recognition of her Gray’s character.
“I like that I like that persons are nonetheless [fans],” Oh mentioned of viewers who want she’d make a cameo, as so many different alums have in current seasons.
“I like that you simply requested me that, as a result of Cristina Yang is, after all, close to and expensive to my coronary heart,” Oh shared. “[But] I’ll say, not anytime quickly, my love.”
The record-breaking medical drama is presently in its twentieth season, and ABC introduced that it was simply renewed for season 21. Nonetheless, for Oh, she feels she accomplished the story her character was supposed to inform.
“I hope individuals really feel like I did my job, which is that I dropped at life a personality and she or he had a development over 10 seasons, and that it was true,” mentioned Oh, who was a part of the unique forged when the present premiered in March 2005. “She was prepared to maneuver on, and so have I.”
Whereas Gray’s followers won’t need to get the hopes up for Oh’s return, the actress will quickly be seen starring within the hotly anticipated HBO restricted sequence The Sympathizer, reverse Hoa Xuande and Robert Downey Jr.
One notable facet of the manufacturing — created by Park Chan-wook and Don McKellar, primarily based on Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the identical title — is that Downey Jr. performs a number of totally different and distinct roles by the usage of exceptional prosthetics.
“He is so expert and he is so free and it is nice to observe him,” Oh mentioned of Downey Jr. “The way in which that he holds lots of the satire of the piece, the place then the remainder of the forged had been capable of be actually within the drama, it provides it a fantastic form of tone… He was nice.”
The Sympathizer debuts April 14 on HBO.
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