Stephanie Hsu talks viral audition and Oscar-nominated performance in "Everything Everywhere"

SHE SHOULDVE WON

love her

shes so beautiful

Incredible talent with such a fun and beautiful personality! I sincerely hope the movie industry creates more roles specifically for her because she’s brilliant

Girl you were robbed of that oscar

I don't usually comment in any interviews but this one was a genius!

😻 I want her to read some audiobooks... That deep treacle chocolate sauce voice is so amazing. Imagine her to read something like HHGTG or a Terry Pratchett or Jasper Fforde novel with a bit of voice acting. 🤯

Tis one is going places... Amazing roles to play and stories to tell ahead of her.

Stephanie is so amazing and so likeable!!! Love her! ❤

Whatever she will come up with I will be right there to watch it. Awesome interview. It made me squeechi too ❤

she shouldve got the oscar
i love jamie lee curtis but imo eeaao wouldn't have been good without stephanie's contribution.

these people are brilliant and the audio quality is so damn nice

i have no words. this woman is just everything all at once

wow this video doesn't get enough views. Stephanie Hsu is wise beyond her years.

such a good interview!! Brittany really came prepared with the questions

I adore JLC, but she should've turned down the nom. She was in the movie for like a total of 20 minutes and most of her scenes was a stunt double. It may sound nasty, but the Oscar was absolutely stolen from Stephanie.

I love hearing Stephanie Hsu's process of playing her character. She seems quite intentional and thoughtful when doing her art.

What a great interview.

Such a beautiful and conscious interview. Respect to both the interviewer and Stephanie.

She's amazing! Her audition tape should be studied!

Love this movie. And I love the idea that there’s different versions of ourselves in different universes. Imagine you dreamt being president, a famous author, a tv host etc. Now imagine those dreams being things you actually are in other realities.

What a gem Stephanie is.
Healing of the intergenerational trauma is REAL. Just watched it in Hong Kong yesterday & LORDT KNOWS I needed this after the New Moon. It's not just for Asian Americans, or Asian. Clearly North America & the world is resonating with & responding to this film.
Seriously, all these Asian & Asian American ARTISTS doing THEIR thing is healing Asians & Asian Americans WAY more than all the countless lawyers, doctors, bankers & businessmen (I mean, they may be helping others in their own way).
Also, the script is a linguistic masterpiece that non-Chinese may not fully understand or appreciate. It's juggling not two, but THREE languages (English, Cantonese and the southern variety of Mandarin) effortlessly & naturally, which is how most of us from Southern China actually speak. But to convey multiversal & reality-bending concepts together with all the emotional nuances, truly a linguistic & literary feat from the writers!

DELIGHTFUL!

I love Jamie Lee, but she stole your Oscar.

I didn't know Stephanie Hsu before this gorgeous movie and listening to this interview, I can say and admit that I am now a big fan of hers. Love listening to her articulate her feelings and past experiences which she described and expressed so intelligently and vividly. She's well-spoken and we love that with most actors. Thanks and can't wait to see her next movie or show.

Stephanie is so real for mentioning clowning work. Some of the silliest, stupidest work you can do, but is so grounded in sincerity, being present and honestly opens yourself up for so much. Hooray theatre school!

She's amazing. Just amazing.

Amazing interview!!!

In another multiverse, she wins an Oscar along with Jamie Lee.

I totally love this Stefanie chick 😍

Love it

She is so smart and articulate, hope to see her in movies more and more

Give Brittany a raise, this was an excellent interview. Intellectual, human and compassionate, and some really thoughtful questions. Really really well done.

Wow 😮what an intelligent, articulate, emotional and talented actress ❤

Just amazing in every way

Amazing interview! thank you.

I'm actually shocked this was only ~27 minutes. I swear, I feel like there was a 2 hour interview's worth of insight and information delivered in this conversation. Truly incredible interview.

Omg was a fan of hers already in Marvelous ms maisel!!!!!!! Waaat ❤❤❤

I like Stephanie Hsu.a lot.🙂WhAt is Experimental Theater??😲

I fully agree that this movie opened an avenue to heal generational trauma. I saw this movie in theaters with my mom after she requested that my brother and I go see it together.
I struggle a lot with my mental health. I have good days and bad, but at times the weight of the world feels like too much to bear. I feel like I can’t talk about it with my family because I don’t have a solution to it. In these ways I relate heavily to Joy/Jobu. Even down to the alienation I feel from being gay and having a mother who doesn’t understand. It’s overwhelming at times.

But during the scene where Joy/Jobu tries to escape into the bagel, my mom grabbed my hand. I feel like it articulated what she couldn’t with words. In that moment, I felt completely seen and loved by my mom. It was like she was saying she understood what I’ve been going through, and loves me regardless. It had a profound effect on me and I still can’t think about it without crying.

I appreciate this movie so much for giving us the opportunity to communicate on a level we haven’t been able to before. This movie means so much to me in a way I can’t fully articulate, but I’m so glad it exists and want to thank everyone who helped make it happen.

I just discovered that she's 32 years old,she looks phenomenal!

Damn. I love this woman. Stephanie Hsu was a little bit overshadowed by the sheer success of the film while also very much contributing TO the success of it. It's so cool that she knows who she is and what she wants to do and be, while also being willing to be vulnerable. I simply cannot wait to see her in the next thing. Go, Stephanie.

Excellent interviewer in Brittany also.

As someone who doesn't leave comment, i feel the need to leave one here, just to say this is a really spectacular and high quality interview(or podcast talk wtv). I would say this has become my favourite interview of all time.

This content is good and its from all direction. First, the host asked really good non-cliché and even technical question so smoothly that we got a more deep insight to both the artist AND the art. Plus it was done so SO smoothly to the level the interviewee let out many surprising new facts that has never been said, to the table, such as when stephanie talk about her previous clowning work(which she mention its a fact that she never talk to anyone about it). That just show how good she is. I also love how she also mention an intern's view on something that show inclusiveness on her part, then her intelligence really show through from her question and knowledge(you could watch her going on technical stuff, that you get she really did her research) that make it easier for stepahnie to talk about it, and also her humbleness really shine from the start.

Second, from the artist direction, when stephanie talks, you can just really see how genuine, sincere and passionate she is about her art. Like a lot of comments here said, she is really articulate, which a joy to listen to, but also what shines to me the most from this interview is that we get to peek her core system as an artist and also as a person. Love it when she mention on what is taught to her from her past experience, shows that she is someone who took the lesson and carries it. And based on this interview alone, we got to know she really did contribute a lot to this movie(surprised that she said she felt she maybe contributed something after all during the audition tape talk). Also, love that she gave her answer delve deep and give it more that what the question is while slipping in light jokes.

Also, i also felt through this interview, this podcast channel have a very good team which i said it earlier that its good from all direction. I really felt this should be the standard of interviews so a lot more actors can talk in depth about their movies AND themselves like this.

Stephanie should have won. Her role in that movie was so complex and nuanced. I believe the most complex and nuanced of all the characters in that movie.
Fact she lost to JLCurtis. C'mon now. Not right. She should have won for her performance in EEAAO

Love her! She was amazing in EEAAO! She has an amazing carreer in front of her! She totally deserved the oscar and i am sure she will get one soon. ❤

She was incredible and the actual supporting actress in the film with a substantial role.

i wish she won that oscar - she is so talented!

I’ve loved her since Maisel, but love her even more every time I learn about her more as an actress

Unbleeped… like with the nda stuff disclosed? Lol