WEBVTT - One on One: Emily Kuroda 0:00:00.760 --> 0:00:03.000 I Am all In. 0:00:04.840 --> 0:00:08.879 Oh it's you. 0:00:17.000 --> 0:00:20.640 I Am all In with Scott Patterson and iHeartRadio podcast. 0:00:20.960 --> 0:00:23.560 Hey everybody, Scott Patterson, I Am all In Podcast one 0:00:23.600 --> 0:00:28.840 eleven productions, iHeart Radio, iHeartMedia, I Heart Podcast one on 0:00:28.840 --> 0:00:36.040 one interview with Lane Kim's mom, missus Kim. Emily Krota 0:00:36.120 --> 0:00:40.239 herself is here in the studio. We're very excited. Hello Emily, 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:44.720 Thank you for joining us. How you doing good? 0:00:44.800 --> 0:00:45.960 Happy to be here, Scott. 0:00:46.360 --> 0:00:49.960 Good deal. You played And this is shocking to me. 0:00:50.920 --> 0:00:54.440 You played in forty three episodes of Gilmore Girls, and 0:00:54.480 --> 0:00:57.120 I could have sworn you were in just about all 0:00:57.160 --> 0:01:02.080 of them. It's not like, I mean, your presence is 0:01:02.120 --> 0:01:07.440 so powerful. I'm just amazed that it's only forty three, 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:09.280 so that's not even a third of the episodes, and 0:01:09.319 --> 0:01:13.039 it seems like you were in most of them. 0:01:13.240 --> 0:01:14.679 iHeart Podcasts. 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:19.040 Listen on the iHeartRadio app. Emily's best known for her 0:01:19.080 --> 0:01:22.200 roles Kim on obviously TV Gilmore Girls, which she had 0:01:22.200 --> 0:01:24.680 a long career on stage and screen as a veteran 0:01:24.760 --> 0:01:28.240 of the East West Players, Los Angeles Premier Asian American 0:01:28.280 --> 0:01:30.679 theater group, and she's performed all over the nation on 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:33.680 stage and numerous theater groups, and she's a recipient of 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:38.360 five count them, five Drama Logue Awards, a Garland Award 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:41.760 for Outstanding Performance, an la Ovation Award nomination for Best 0:01:41.840 --> 0:01:46.120 Lead Actress in a Play, Playwrights Arena Outstanding Contribution to 0:01:46.319 --> 0:01:50.480 LA Theater, and East West Players Ray Creevy Award. Is 0:01:50.480 --> 0:01:51.640 that the correct pronouncement? 0:01:51.680 --> 0:01:52.280 Yeah, that's right. 0:01:52.880 --> 0:01:56.320 You can see her most recently in the Amazon Prime 0:01:56.440 --> 0:01:59.960 show The Power, and has had roles in The Good Doctor, 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:05.360 Resident and All Rise, Welcome, One and All, the one 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:10.160 and Only Emily Carrota. Hello, Emily. Take us back to 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:13.160 being cast in the show. What was the Did you 0:02:13.240 --> 0:02:14.359 have to audition for this? 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:17.639 Oh? Yeah, yeah? And I went in and I had 0:02:17.639 --> 0:02:23.519 this kind of bad Korean accent and uh and then 0:02:24.240 --> 0:02:27.160 Amy goes, what are you doing? I said, well, she's 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:30.960 from Korea, so I'm trying to Korean an accent. She goes, oh, 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:35.000 stop doing that. Just just talk like a general. I said, oh, okay. 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:36.959 Look like a general. 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:39.720 That's why missus Kim talks that way. 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:43.440 Right there in the room. She gave you the whole 0:02:43.560 --> 0:02:44.760 character right there in the room. 0:02:45.120 --> 0:02:45.560 That's it. 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:48.600 Yeah, do you remember who was in the room. Was 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:49.840 Gavin Polone in the room? 0:02:49.960 --> 0:02:50.560 Was Yah? 0:02:51.080 --> 0:02:53.160 Was the director in the room to Leslie like a gladder? 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:53.840 Was she in the room? 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:55.680 I don't remember, Leslie. 0:02:56.200 --> 0:02:59.400 Yeah, you know. Leslie didn't say anything. She didn't say much. 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:02.720 But oh, they're right. 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:08.840 Gavin didn't really say anything either. So could you tell 0:03:08.880 --> 0:03:11.000 how many people that were auditioning for missus Kim were? 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:13.560 There are a lot of actresses in the waiting room. 0:03:13.520 --> 0:03:16.880 There weren't there. We're all friends, so there's just maybe 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:18.160 five people I knew? 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:20.840 Oh really, so you knew everybody? 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:22.160 Yeah? Pretty much? 0:03:22.480 --> 0:03:25.880 Oh my gosh, but we're all friends. I was fine, 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:31.480 we're nervous at all? Oddly, No, yeah, neither one was. 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:35.280 I was. It's weird, right, You don't why because I 0:03:35.320 --> 0:03:36.839 never thought I was going to get it. I thought 0:03:36.880 --> 0:03:39.880 the script was too good. Some they're going to offer 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:42.600 it to big stars because the movie people were starting 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:44.240 to get into TV at that time, you know, they 0:03:44.280 --> 0:03:47.960 were flooding TV at that time. I thought, what's to 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:49.640 get nervous about it, don't have a shot any my eyes. 0:03:49.640 --> 0:03:51.920 I might as well go in and just like have fun. 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:55.720 You know that was probably me too. It's like what 0:03:55.800 --> 0:03:56.200 the heck? 0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:00.000 Right? Did you Did you get to the point where 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:02.880 you were auditioning so often and nailing everything but weren't 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:04.640 getting the offer. Was there a period of time in 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:05.840 your career when that happened. 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:07.160 No, it's touch and go. 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:12.160 But uh right, yeah, do you get mostly everything you 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:12.840 auditioned for? 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:18.359 I don't audition that much anymore, so, so it's been okay. 0:04:18.600 --> 0:04:21.200 So you just do you just get offers. 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:24.080 For a stage, I get offers, and for TV I 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:28.599 have to I have to put myself on tape and. 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:30.159 Yuck, gosh. 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:34.760 That's amazing, amazing, Such an iconic character in an iconic 0:04:34.839 --> 0:04:39.479 show and the business still won't just make offers. It's 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:42.440 very strange, very strange. Can you explain that? 0:04:43.400 --> 0:04:45.839 No, I gave up trying to understand this business. Scut 0:04:47.520 --> 0:04:48.360 it is what it is. 0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:53.120 You know, Susan. What would you like to ask a question? 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:53.960 What's on your mind? 0:04:55.120 --> 0:04:55.520 Yeah? 0:04:55.640 --> 0:04:59.520 So we just uh on the podcast, we just recapped 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:03.520 your fire episode, which was the baby shower episode. 0:05:03.560 --> 0:05:05.400 Oh yeah, do. 0:05:05.320 --> 0:05:07.839 You what do you remember from that last day of filming? 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:12.880 I remember pushing that bed up the street. Oh my god, 0:05:12.960 --> 0:05:15.360 it was heavy and we had to do it over 0:05:15.440 --> 0:05:18.560 and over and over again. And that was one of 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:23.200 the few times I was allowed to improv, so because 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:28.960 that was a long way to push Yeah. 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:29.400 Right, Yeah, you get to talk to some cars and 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:32.960 say your headlights on or what turn cirgnals had stopped? 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:35.039 You didn't come to a full stop, and the whole 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:42.120 great stuff. Great stuff. So this character of Missus Kim 0:05:42.240 --> 0:05:45.400 was based on the producer gilmour Amy's right hand and 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:50.279 best friend, Helen pye H and her mom knowing was 0:05:50.320 --> 0:05:54.120 based on a real person's relationship. Did that feel all 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:56.520 the more special to you to portray this character. 0:05:57.320 --> 0:06:00.240 I think that's why it was so real, because you know, 0:06:00.279 --> 0:06:02.960 I've played moms before, but it's always kind of that 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:08.160 fake Hollywood mom, you know from career Japan or Vietnam 0:06:08.279 --> 0:06:11.800 or something. But this one was actually three dimensional. And 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:14.120 then when I talked to Helen and met her parents, 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:17.119 I'm like, well, no, wonder it's based on real people. Yeah, 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:20.560 and her mom was just both her parents, but her 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:24.040 mom especially was wonderful in helping me. You know, when 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:26.000 I had to speak Korean or if I had some 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:27.880 cultural questions, she was great. 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:32.880 That's very cool, Yes, really great. We know Missus Kim 0:06:33.000 --> 0:06:39.240 was strict, but funny, also loving, very complex personality. What 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:41.520 was it like to create that role? 0:06:42.839 --> 0:06:47.599 It was really kind of It was easy because see, 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:52.880 to me, in my mind, she was just the most loving, giving, 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:59.240 caring mother in the world. And coming from an Asian background, 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:03.800 that's how we do it. We're not hugging Feeley, we're 0:07:03.839 --> 0:07:05.719 not touching you know, I love you, I live. We 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:11.040 do it by by protecting our children, by teaching them, 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:16.680 by you know. So it's really interesting because usually when 0:07:16.680 --> 0:07:21.920 I meet Asian women who saw the show, they were like, 0:07:21.960 --> 0:07:24.760 oh my god, she loved her daughter so much, and 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:27.000 the non Asian women would say, how can she be 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:31.960 such a mean witch? But in my mind she was. 0:07:32.560 --> 0:07:34.800 She was not that at all. She just loved Lane 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:37.640 so much. And that's why, you know, when Lane lied 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:40.200 to her and she found all that stuff onto the floorboards, 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:43.200 I just broke my heart because the first time your 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:47.880 child lies to you, it's devastating. And yet you know, 0:07:48.320 --> 0:07:51.200 she didn't show it. She just kicked out of the house. 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:55.720 Right right, right, right, Yeah, the most touching moment. As 0:07:55.760 --> 0:07:58.600 I recall so far, we're almost done season seven. I 0:07:58.640 --> 0:08:02.520 haven't seen the series at all this I'm experiencing it 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:04.240 for the first time. But the most touching moment was 0:08:04.280 --> 0:08:07.840 when when you sat her down and you had you 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:15.440 each had a shot of uh yes, and very very 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:19.920 moving when you told her that she'd become a woman 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:22.960 now and that you know you're going to be responsible 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:25.720 for your own life, and that your job was basically over. 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:28.720 And it was so spit It was such a bittersweet moment. 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:34.280 It was so beautiful, It was so beautifully played. So 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:39.000 we just we just recapped that lad last episode. As 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:43.040 Susanne has mentioned with Lane's baby, share, what do you 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:47.760 remember about your lat because that was your last episode, 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:50.800 wasn't it. Yeah? Yeah, So what do you remember about 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:52.280 that day, that last day of filming. 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:56.400 Well, I didn't know that was gonna be it. I 0:08:56.400 --> 0:08:57.520 thought we were coming back. 0:08:57.840 --> 0:09:00.479 Yeah we did. None of us knew, did we got? 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:03.040 So it was like, I have a good you know, summer, 0:09:03.200 --> 0:09:07.760 we'll see. Yeah. So I didn't know. The wait of 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:10.520 it didn't hold extra weight because I just figured, oh, 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:13.040 now it's our vacation. Yeah right. 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:15.440 I thought we'd be doing that show for fifteen years. 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:19.000 That thing was never going to end. They so loyal 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:22.160 and so strong and the number is still strong and everything. Yeah, 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:24.520 that was quite a shock, wasn't it. Well, when you 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:27.120 found out that it was over, We're worried. You remember 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:27.720 where you shocked? 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:32.760 I think Keiko called me. I was like, what, Yeah, 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:35.000 I said, it can't be over because you know you 0:09:35.040 --> 0:09:37.439 had your wedding yet. I figured they're not going to 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:41.199 end the show without that wedding. You know they did. 0:09:42.080 --> 0:09:46.200 They did. I'm not going to get a wedding. It's 0:09:46.200 --> 0:09:48.880 not happening. Act it's not gonna happen. 0:09:50.280 --> 0:09:52.400 I still want it. I've had been kiting me as well. 0:09:52.440 --> 0:09:55.400 Scott, all right, you take you take the mantle now, 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:58.920 because I'm I'm exhausted from it. You know they want 0:09:58.960 --> 0:10:00.640 If they don't want a wedding, they're not gonna. 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:05.559 Yeah, the fans want that too, exactly. All the fans wanted. 0:10:06.000 --> 0:10:07.920 They waited seven years for it, you. 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:12.199 Know, I mean, it's bizarre. It was bizarre. So one 0:10:12.240 --> 0:10:14.840 of our favorite scenes was when Laine and missus Kim 0:10:15.720 --> 0:10:20.000 did shots together. We talked about that, Uh, do you 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:22.440 have favorite moment with Keiko? 0:10:23.640 --> 0:10:28.240 Maybe the wedding. Maybe the wedding, Yeah, because by that time, 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:31.480 you know, we have been together, all of us have 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:35.360 been together so much for over the years that it 0:10:35.400 --> 0:10:38.560 was I didn't have to act. I was like trying 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:42.400 not to cry, you know, barely making it down the aisle. 0:10:42.920 --> 0:10:47.080 So that that was one of my favorite episodes. And 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:49.520 I like the fact that we never talked about mister 0:10:49.640 --> 0:10:52.319 Kim and I know that we all had our ideas, 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:55.160 but we never shared them. I thought that was pretty great. 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:57.880 That was actually going to be one of the questions 0:10:57.920 --> 0:11:00.320 that I had is where do you think mister Kim 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:01.600 was for seven years? 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:03.120 I think he was on the road. I think it 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:07.320 was a rock and roll star. Okay, so I got 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:10.960 music in my blood and Keiko too. 0:11:11.440 --> 0:11:22.080 Yeah. 0:11:22.320 --> 0:11:26.360 You know, really that that Lane and Missus Kim dynamic 0:11:26.480 --> 0:11:29.120 was so powerful that it was almost like a show 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:31.760 within a show. It's like, let's go back to the 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:34.800 Let's go back to that show. You know. If anything 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:37.439 ever dragged or it was always a delight to get 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:40.400 back to that dynamic because it was just it just 0:11:40.679 --> 0:11:50.360 was on fire. That thing just sparkled. So watching your 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:57.760 relationship evolve with with Lane throughout the series, Yeah, do 0:11:57.800 --> 0:12:01.520 you think that missus Kim is happy with the way 0:12:01.600 --> 0:12:02.920 Lane's life turned out? 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:07.760 No, not at all. I think she would want Lane 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:11.880 to have gone back to the band and pursued her 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:18.000 music and gone away from the store. I mean, I 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:21.840 know she had to raise her kids, so I was thinking, Okay, 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:23.680 you know, you always have your hopes and dreams for 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:26.440 when we did the reboot, I thought, maybe the boys 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:28.840 we have our own band now, and you know, we're 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:31.400 going on the road pretty soon. But that didn't happen. 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:37.160 I wouldn't know. I love that idea. I know she wouldn't. 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:42.760 And then I'd play the tambourine, you know, I was ready. 0:12:45.880 --> 0:12:47.400 Does anyone ask some questions? 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:48.000 Sure? 0:12:49.960 --> 0:12:52.920 At what point in the in the series do you 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:56.480 think was the turning point for missus Kim to let 0:12:56.760 --> 0:12:59.480 Lane go and be her own person. 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:06.760 Probably living with the boys. Even though it freaked her out, 0:13:07.000 --> 0:13:10.120 she didn't, she accepted it, you know. 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:11.679 Yeah. 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:13.920 There was a lot of concessions she made over the 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:18.120 years that were surprising. So she wasn't a stagnant character. 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:24.640 She was growing and learning from Lane. Yeah as much. Yeah, yeah, 0:13:24.760 --> 0:13:26.920 I agree, But Lane was the perfect little girl. 0:13:30.400 --> 0:13:32.920 Lane is one of my favorite characters. I will say 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:36.320 I love Lane more than I love Rory. And there 0:13:36.360 --> 0:13:37.200 I said it out loud. 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:39.920 Let's see. 0:13:39.960 --> 0:13:42.679 Do you think that there was any part of missus 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:45.719 Kim sacrificing herself? This kind of touches on what we're 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:49.480 just saying, where missus Kim sacrifices herself to keep her 0:13:49.559 --> 0:13:50.439 daughter in her life. 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:54.400 Oh yeah, it's all for her daughter, everything for her daughter. 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:55.600 Yeah. 0:13:55.679 --> 0:13:56.479 Yeah. 0:13:56.520 --> 0:13:59.120 And then when after the babies are born, for the kids, 0:13:59.160 --> 0:13:59.959 for the grandkids. 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:03.199 So missus Kim was a tough cookie, but it all 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:06.160 came from love. Like you were saying, that's how you know, 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:09.880 moms show instead of being touchy feely, they show it 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:13.200 through their actions and being protective, et cetera. So did 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:16.360 you relate to her or did you have someone in 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:17.760 your life that was like her? 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:20.200 I was raised like that, so it was normal to me. 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:25.360 Okay, if you could change any element of the Lane 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:30.200 Missus Kim storyline or dynamic, what change would you make. 0:14:30.760 --> 0:14:33.880 I don't think I would have changed anything. I think 0:14:33.960 --> 0:14:42.560 by not over talking, you know, it says more. Yeah, yeah, 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:47.200 our relationship. So I liked it. I think that Amy 0:14:47.480 --> 0:14:51.720 and Dann are just phenomenal writers. Yeah, and they did 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:52.600 a great job. 0:14:54.200 --> 0:14:55.000 Yeah. 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:58.560 I think it was good because it's basically at its core, 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:01.560 it's a mother daughter show, and so I think that 0:15:01.960 --> 0:15:04.960 they did a good job of portraying the whole spectrum 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:08.120 of all the mother daughter relationships in the show. So 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:12.960 I agree with you there. And see, I'm gonna skip 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:16.400 this next question because I really want to ask between 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:21.920 Missus Kim, Emily Gilmore, and or ale I who was 0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:24.240 the best mother and who was the worst mother? 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:30.440 Of course I was the best mother, the worst mother? 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:33.600 I don't know, there was no worst mothers. I don't 0:15:33.600 --> 0:15:39.080 think everybody. Everybody makes mistakes, even Missus Kim. Yeah, that's 0:15:39.120 --> 0:15:45.040 what was wonderful about the series, right, Nobody was two dimensional. 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:47.480 Everybody was three dimensional. Everybody had faults. 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:50.160 Yeah, everybody's just doing their best. 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:53.440 Everybody's doing their best right in regardless. 0:15:53.560 --> 0:15:56.680 Yeah, it doesn't always turn out right, but yeah, neither 0:15:56.840 --> 0:15:57.560 is life, you know. 0:15:58.880 --> 0:15:59.120 Yeah. 0:16:01.760 --> 0:16:05.880 Okay, Emily, what did it mean to you as an 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:10.560 Asian American to portray a mother daughter relationship on a 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:14.000 network TV show like this? Was it a huge did 0:16:14.000 --> 0:16:15.840 you feel like it was a huge responsibility. 0:16:16.760 --> 0:16:21.600 I didn't feel the responsibility that some people feel. I 0:16:21.720 --> 0:16:26.360 just thought, wow, this is really cool because I couldn't 0:16:26.400 --> 0:16:32.800 think of any relationship in the history of TV till 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:35.280 that point. Well, I did a series called Gung Host 0:16:35.280 --> 0:16:37.320 where we kind of had a family, but it's very 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:40.000 rare and that only ran for a season. But this 0:16:40.040 --> 0:16:43.960 one ran for seven seasons, and it really explored this 0:16:44.080 --> 0:16:46.800 dynamic of a mother and daughter relationship that was real 0:16:47.240 --> 0:16:50.280 and I hadn't seen anything like that ever on TV 0:16:50.400 --> 0:16:54.600 in my life. So I was just so very grateful 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:57.240 for every episode that I did. 0:16:59.080 --> 0:17:03.640 What reaction did the Asian American community have at the 0:17:03.720 --> 0:17:04.919 time the show was airing. 0:17:05.320 --> 0:17:08.280 Yeah, you know, Kik and I thought, oh, because we're 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:12.120 both of Japanese American Japanese ancestry, so we thought we'd 0:17:12.160 --> 0:17:14.600 get flat. But at least for me, I didn't. I 0:17:14.640 --> 0:17:17.879 didn't get any. I got a lot of good feedback 0:17:17.880 --> 0:17:21.720 from Asian Americans of all, regardless of where their families 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:27.200 came from, because it was kind of a universal relationship 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:31.600 that they could relate to. So I was very lucky. 0:17:31.880 --> 0:17:38.040 All the feedback that I heard was very positive, very positive. 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:43.679 And how were you recognized by Were you showered with 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:48.360 awards from that community for portraying this character? 0:17:48.720 --> 0:17:54.080 Oh heck no, no, nothing, no, but I'm acknowledged so 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:56.480 that's good. I like to be acknowledged. 0:17:56.520 --> 0:17:59.680 Yeah, in portraying somebody like missus Kim, what did you 0:17:59.760 --> 0:18:02.800 learn about yourself as an actor that you. 0:18:02.800 --> 0:18:07.000 Didn't I think, because you know, I have a stepson, 0:18:07.119 --> 0:18:10.520 but I never had children of my own, And the 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:16.480 depth of love and maybe it's probably it's way more 0:18:16.520 --> 0:18:19.440 than that, but that I over the seven years that 0:18:19.560 --> 0:18:24.879 I had for Lane was kind of shocking to me. 0:18:25.080 --> 0:18:28.800 Sometimes it was like, oh my god, my heart can't 0:18:28.800 --> 0:18:32.160 get any bigger. How I couldn't possibly love this creature 0:18:32.280 --> 0:18:35.240 anymore than I do. So it was a it was 0:18:35.280 --> 0:18:39.240 an eye opener. And even when she would disappoint me 0:18:39.480 --> 0:18:44.879 or fight me, I was overwhelmed by by my compassion, 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:48.160 by my love for her, and that was mixed with anger, 0:18:48.200 --> 0:18:51.720 but still, you know, it was a nice surprise that 0:18:51.760 --> 0:18:53.399 I had over the seven years. 0:18:53.720 --> 0:18:56.040 Are you recognized all the time when you go. 0:18:56.040 --> 0:18:57.920 Out pretty much? Yeah? 0:18:58.280 --> 0:19:01.840 Still right? Right? Do you find that the people are 0:19:01.840 --> 0:19:07.439 getting younger all the time? Yeah? Weird, it's quite quite wild. 0:19:07.840 --> 0:19:12.240 Well, sometimes I see all three generations, the grandmother and 0:19:12.280 --> 0:19:14.760 the mother and their daughter, and all three of them 0:19:14.800 --> 0:19:18.680 are Gilmore Girls fans. So it's it's wonderful. It's still good. 0:19:18.920 --> 0:19:22.720 It's just great. Auntie's experience is great. With these fans, Yeah, 0:19:23.160 --> 0:19:25.000 they love the show so much. God. 0:19:25.800 --> 0:19:29.240 It definitely has a multi generational appeal. Like there's so 0:19:29.400 --> 0:19:34.480 many fans that are just devoted fans that weren't even 0:19:34.520 --> 0:19:37.919 born when the show aired, and actually here they are. 0:19:37.680 --> 0:19:39.399 Like their whole world is Gilmore Girls. 0:19:39.400 --> 0:19:41.400 It just speaks to everyone. 0:19:41.520 --> 0:19:44.760 They weren't some of them weren't even born when the 0:19:45.080 --> 0:19:48.879 Netflix episodes aired. They're that young, they like I do 0:19:49.000 --> 0:19:53.919 these conventions and personal appearances sometimes and and the age, 0:19:54.040 --> 0:19:57.520 the age of these kids, I mean they're so young 0:19:57.600 --> 0:20:00.920 and they know the show. Yeah. Yeah, there's their mother, 0:20:01.040 --> 0:20:04.160 their grandmother sometimes their great grandmother and all the fellas. 0:20:04.200 --> 0:20:07.160 I mean they're all there. And oh, you know, she 0:20:07.160 --> 0:20:09.680 she got me watching the show. I never thought I'd 0:20:09.760 --> 0:20:12.000 like it, But I'm more obsessed with it than she is. 0:20:12.080 --> 0:20:16.400 You know. You know, it's it's when here's a here's 0:20:16.400 --> 0:20:19.560 a question. Did you ever think the show would have 0:20:19.640 --> 0:20:24.239 this kind of a lasting impact on the culture and 0:20:24.280 --> 0:20:29.399 on on on the fans. I mean I didn't either, right, Yeah, And. 0:20:29.880 --> 0:20:34.200 I'm watching TV and their lines are like I find 0:20:34.240 --> 0:20:37.920 out what show. It was some some new sitcom you 0:20:37.960 --> 0:20:40.240 know that. What do you think this is Gilmore Girls? 0:20:40.440 --> 0:20:46.080 I mean it's because a lot of times they refer 0:20:46.200 --> 0:20:50.880 to the Gilmore Girls in today's sitcoms, right, you know episodics, 0:20:50.880 --> 0:20:55.080 and it's like, oh my god, yeah, it's wonderful. 0:20:54.560 --> 0:20:59.119 It is, it's it's Uh. I remember getting a residual 0:20:59.240 --> 0:21:01.760 check and I didn't know what the hell it was for. 0:21:01.800 --> 0:21:06.000 And I saw on it it said Euphoria And you 0:21:06.080 --> 0:21:09.480 know that show that Sydney Sweeney was on that launched 0:21:09.520 --> 0:21:15.320 and Zendaia Zendaya and Sydney Sweeney and launched all these 0:21:15.359 --> 0:21:20.679 big careers. And uh, I'd never seen it and I 0:21:20.720 --> 0:21:23.919 didn't remember being on it. And I was like, so 0:21:24.000 --> 0:21:26.399 I So I called the manager and I said, was like, 0:21:26.920 --> 0:21:31.080 did I do an episode of like in a comotos 0:21:31.119 --> 0:21:33.520 state or something? Did did I do an episode of 0:21:33.520 --> 0:21:38.760 of of of of Euphoria? No? No, but they there 0:21:38.840 --> 0:21:44.840 was a clip from Gilmore Girls and Luke Steiner's It's 0:21:44.880 --> 0:21:50.840 It's all over the place, It's it's all over Culture's wild. Anyway, 0:21:52.640 --> 0:21:56.240 what is your best and most lasting memory from being 0:21:57.000 --> 0:22:02.240 a part of that revered cast and such a revered show. 0:22:03.359 --> 0:22:07.560 What one of my one of the things that I 0:22:07.560 --> 0:22:12.360 will always remember how Amy would not have fake flowers 0:22:12.400 --> 0:22:15.280 on the set, so we'd always have real flowers. So, 0:22:15.440 --> 0:22:18.720 you know, we had a lot of big events with 0:22:18.800 --> 0:22:21.080 lots of flowers and they were all real. So when 0:22:21.119 --> 0:22:25.679 you walked walked on set, it was just glorious. And 0:22:25.720 --> 0:22:28.360 then then they always let me take some home if 0:22:28.840 --> 0:22:30.520 at the end of the day, so that was even met. 0:22:32.400 --> 0:22:35.200 It also smelled good. I remember the smell of those sets. 0:22:35.240 --> 0:22:38.119 Yeah, we had many shows where it just smelled. It 0:22:38.200 --> 0:22:40.080 was wonderful, right. 0:22:40.040 --> 0:22:53.119 Right, right, Well, that is a perfect note to transition 0:22:53.359 --> 0:22:57.080 into rapid Fire. It's a little segment we called rapid fire. Okay, 0:22:57.160 --> 0:23:00.000 there is no pressure to answer the questions quickly though. 0:23:00.840 --> 0:23:03.199 All right, so here we go. How do you like 0:23:03.240 --> 0:23:05.800 your coffee with cream? 0:23:06.280 --> 0:23:08.040 Your coffee is so good? Scott? 0:23:08.160 --> 0:23:10.440 Oh? Thank you? Do you do you get my coffee? 0:23:10.720 --> 0:23:13.760 Yeah, Scott, the best coffee. 0:23:13.280 --> 0:23:14.920 And I it's really good. 0:23:15.720 --> 0:23:16.400 It's so good. 0:23:16.840 --> 0:23:18.800 Which blends do you enjoy. 0:23:18.600 --> 0:23:20.440 The highly caffeinated one? 0:23:21.080 --> 0:23:21.280 Oh? 0:23:21.359 --> 0:23:26.680 The two? Mother Mom's favorite? 0:23:27.760 --> 0:23:28.200 So good? 0:23:29.600 --> 0:23:33.639 Yeah, it's it really is. I taste tested hundreds of 0:23:33.640 --> 0:23:38.439 coffees before I chose that these particular coffees. It's just 0:23:38.560 --> 0:23:40.720 wonderful stuff. Thank you for the plug. By the way, 0:23:40.920 --> 0:23:44.520 are your team Logan, Team Jess or Team Deem? Did 0:23:44.520 --> 0:23:47.560