The Impact Report: Stephanie Hsu Feels Everything Everywhere All at Once About Her Role in Representation (Video)

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“Everything Everywhere All at Once” actress Stephanie Hsu feels a lot of different things about her role in increasing representation, especially as she steps further into the spotlight.“It’s hard enough to be an artist and it’s very hard to be an artist who’s marginalized in any way,” Hsu told TheWrap in our new interview series The Impact Report, focused on marginalized artists who are making an impact in their craft.

Hsu skyrocketed to fame in the past year thanks to her performance playing daughter to Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan in “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” and she says it was in this film that her mother finally saw the impact that Hsu’s acting had on other people.“I remember seeing ‘Crazy Rich Asians,’ I was kind of late to seeing it and everyone was going, ‘You have to see it, you have to see it,'” Hsu said. “I think I was nervous to see it because I knew how emotional I would get, and literally the moment that the movie started I just started weeping because everyone was beautiful.

Everyone was epic on this big screen.”Still, even with all of Hsu’s acclaim, she’s reminded daily of what it’s like to be marginalized.“I really do feel like we have been making a lot of big steps in the last five to 10 years, but then this morning I was having a live televised interview,” Hsu said as she recalled a recent incident in which she was mistaken for “Babylon” actress Li Jun Li. “They were like, ‘You’re so incredible in ‘Everything Everywhere,’ and also just have to say what an incredible turn for you in ‘Babylon’ as well.