Despite Being Nominated for an Oscar, Hong Chau wants to remain the outcast.
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The 43 years old Chau never imagined she'd be nominated for an Academy Award as an actress: She was raisesd in New Orleans and was bron to Vietnamese parents in a refugee camp. she studied creative writing and film studies at Boston University. After she sighned up for an improve class to cure her shyness, Heer teacher encouraged her to pursue performing, and chau moved to Los Angeles to seek Parts. But at first, Success seemed elusive, and she was told by sceptical casting directors that she would never be able to anything bigger than a day-player role.
Chau Said, "But the pitty hopeful that I'd get to work on cool, weird movie- because thouse were the movies I liked- was what kept me going. I juist ket holding out hope that something would materialise, which it thankfully did".
Chau's career began after tshe starred in Paul Thomas Anderson's "Downsizing" after making her big-screen debut in "Inherent vice". Sicne then, she has been a scene-stealer in films like HBO's "Wathmen" and the most recent culinary comedy "The Menu" in which she plays a coolly hostile maitre d'. A number of auteur-driven movies, Such as Kelly Reichardt's "Showing Up" Wes Anderson's "Asteroid City" and Yorgos Lanthimos' "And" will feature chau in the near future, but in the menatime, viewers can watch her in screen in "The Whale" where her character, Liz, Provides a lot of tough love to Fraser's 600-pound recluse.
According to Fraser, Chau is"a force of nature:titanium backbone, suffers no fools and has a bear trap of a memory". "Because of how diverse and interesting she is, editing her work is an embarrassment of riches. She also has more to say than I do during dialogue, in the pauses and silences between lines".
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