Stephanie Hsu, Oscar nominee and rising Hollywood star, playing a hugely popular Chinese soap star?
She couldn’t see it at first, actually.
Enter: Kat, a persona that Hsu at first struggled to connect with it.
Stephanie Hsu in ‘Joy Ride’.Lionsgate
“I had to figure out a way to make her funny.”
Suffice it to say, she figures it out.
“I was like, I know this woman Sherry Cola and she is Lolo,” Hsu says.
Stephanie Hsu, Sherry Cola, Ashley Park, and Sabrina Wu in ‘Joy Ride’.Ed Araquel/Lionsgate
As a self-proclaimed weirdo, the role felt like “destiny,” Wu says.
“My friends were like, ‘You actually need to book this role.
This is the only role you’ll ever get that makes any sense for you.
You have to do it.’
“In those ways,” Wu says, “I was like, ‘This is it.
This is my moment.'”
Joy Rideis in theaters July 7.
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