Sandra Oh on Whether ‘The Chair’ Will Return and How ‘Killing Eve’ Changed the Way She Operates
variety.comMichael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeSandra Oh’s Netflix comedy “The Chair” touches on the sticky nature of how actions are perceived and the consequences that should or shouldn’t come with it in an age of social media, where nuance often gets lost in the debate.“It’s really tricky to talk about,” Oh tells Variety’s Awards Circuit Podcast. “It’s hard to gague when it’s going to bite you.
In some ways, when it gets out there in the culture, it doesn’t belong to you anymore.” But that’s just one topic to be found in the humorous and satirical “The Chair,” which takes on everything from parenting to office politics to the question of discrimination, ageism and sexism at institutions like the New England university where “The Chair” is set.
Oh is nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award in the lead female actor in a comedy series category for “The Chair,” and coicidentally, the SAG Awards take place on Sunday, February 27 — the same night that her drama “Killing Eve” returns on BBC America for the start of its fourth and final season.On this episode of Variety’s award-winning Awards Circuit Podcast, we talk to Oh about “The Chair,” “Killing Eve” and her busy animation voice-over career.
But first, our Awards Circuit Roundtable dissects the newly announced Oscars hosts and much more. Listen below:From writer and showrunner Amanda Peet, Netflix’s “The Chair,” which premiered last august, stars Oh as Dr.
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