Randall Park wants to “make the world great” for his daughter — even if he loves playing evil

“We know how cruelty of the world and harsh” is not necessarily a statement that you expect to hear from Randall Park. In a profession that extends from the classic YouTube worship “IKEA Heights” to a veil in “The Office”, through “Fresh off the boat“” “I always be my countryAnd its frequent existence Agent Jimmy Woo In MCU, Park has constantly proved that he is one of the most reliable actors in entertainment.

And in the new Netflix Whodunit series.AccommodationHe brings a light touch to his brand for the role of the FBI Flumoxed client who gives up in the greatest investigator in the world, plays by Uzo Aduba.

But outside the camera, Park is also a dangerous creative artist – the founder of the American -Asian -Asian theater company at the University of California, Los Angeles, and is the director of the famous feature of 2023.The shortcomings“Emotional preacher of people with invisible disabilities – like his daughter.

During our ass.Salon talks“The conversation, Park discussed how raising a daughter on the spectrum of autism made him understand” the problem is not her “and inspired him and his wife to put their attention in changing it, but to make the world” a better place “until he grows up.

Watch my “salon conversations” with Park here on YouTube, or read below, to learn more about “intimate friendship and celebration” of his community in American Asian acting, the iconic historical figure that most of which he loved and his amazing new dark rotation like Moretarti on “Watson”.

The next conversation was gently edited for clarity and length.

Talk to me about “residence”. This show is very Agatha Christievery “Knives“A million letters. One place. One puzzle.

“Residence” is “The upper floor, the bottom floor“The nail murder in the eastern wing, and the White House stay during the Australian state dinner. It relates to the people who run the White House every day in every administration, and anyone staying and keeping the White House on his feet, and they take the killing.

This offer had many seizures and beginnings. I was in the middle of the road by shooting it, then …

Actors strike, hitting the book. Death in actors. Great André Bruger It was originally delivered as AB Wynt. [He] He shot half of its purposes, then the strike occurred, so we were late there. André, who was just a shock to all of us died and tragic to inspect one of our great people. So we had to reformulate those scenes with the great Giancarlo EspositoWho was a close friend with André. It was a very beautiful thing for him to pick up what his friend started and did him in honor of his friend. The entire process took only a few years due to those things.

You are a funny man, but here you are the person who watches everyone. It is a very restricted part. Is there a background story for your personality? Are you thinking about how to get jokes?

In the story, Curdelia became a very difficult cup of Edwin, especially at first, because it is the greatest investigator in the world. She knows that she, as she resents the fact that this man has been appointed to help her, because she can do it alone. Edwin Park is familiar with her reputation and respected by Curda because of this. He really wants to help, and he also wants to learn from it. Many what he does during the show, stand there, only, make there, and sometimes he throws some things in it, it really shows his commitment to murder.

It has established a theater company in Ucla For Asian Americans, you were part of this society from raising other American Asian voices throughout your career. Did you have that when you would come in the world and you had started as an actor?

Not on a national or international scale, but on a local scale, yes. When I started for the first time, I participated in the Asian American Theater Company, which branched from the College Theater Company. I was always working with great actors, and then, how my career developed and continued forward. It is fun to work with a large group of talented. Really, any offer, it’s a team, and everyone plays their role. I just like to go there, give what I give, and give other actors. It is a great blessing.

How does it seem to you now in the society of American actors, producers, writers, verify each other, and help each other? Is it the same, or you feel any of this competitiveness in Hollywood?

No, I never had because we were a small society in the entertainment world when it started for the first time, it still seemed very supportive. We also changed, sleep and published all these wonderful projects, we all know each other. It is still a small society, and at least for me, it is one of the intimate friendship and celebration. Everyone wants “Everything everywhere once“Crazy wealthy Asians“These all win all of us.

You are the son of the immigrants. We are now in a completely different era in our country where immigrants are targeted, and immigrant children are targeted.

Diversity and inclusion are targeted.

This also includes persons with disabilities, and people with invisible disabilities.

Yes. My daughter.

You and your wife have been her advocates for a long time. One of the things that I said hit me, “when it was first diagnosed and discovered first, I wanted to fix it.” It has changed for you, but there are many people who still want to fix people.

When it was first diagnosed on the spectrum, it is clear that we did not know much about autism. Immediately after the diagnosis, it was, “Well, well, what do we do? What do we do?” Because we know how cruelty and cruelty of the world, what do we do to make it ready for this world? The thought was, “What do we do for her specifically?”

With the passage of time, it grows with it, its vision grows, and its love is very much and the realization of the perfection of us, it has become clear to us, no, the problem is not for it, it is the cruel world in which it grows. So, what can we do to make the world a better place for it, instead of putting everything on it? My wife and I joined a charity called Colitor CityWhich focuses on the inclusion and acceptance of people with invisible disabilities. We are very excited about that organization and unemployed by making sure that the world is a better place for it.

When we now live in a culture that is accepted to combat science, and “and”Vaccines cause autism“Do you somehow back to the table as a chat point, what do you do, as a father and a bounty, want to say when you see things like this or when you hear this speech?

Obviously, I do not believe the same things that many people say. There is a continuous barrage of opinions and counterpart appearances. Everything becomes a duo in today’s culture, where everything becomes a division point, but I don’t care much about this. I am not on social media. I am not immersed in Vitriol. I just love my daughter, and we want to do what we can to make the world great for her. I love my community. We just want to do what we can to make the world better for it People in my community. I love all groups of people and do what we can, instead of engaging in the ongoing debate. This is a type of useless.

I said that, for a long time, you will get the Asian friend or Asian workmop. What does that look for you, and how do you avoid being TypeCast?

I see it as part of the job, and I don’t think it is an Asian thing exclusively. All actors, especially when something calls and do it well, people see them in this way and want to throw them on other similar parts. I mean, get it, this is the way the industry works. I am only happy to work. I still have it Actor The mentality in which any function is a great blessing, but I also love the idea of ​​branching.

As I am in my career, I got more opportunities to branch here and there. I am playing Moretarti in “WhatsApp”, and Kim Jong Un played for all people. There are always opportunities to do something different, and I am looking for it. At the same time, I do not feel the judgment on anything that people most see, and I am happy to do this.

Your CEO said on Watson that it would be fun to throw the most friendly man in the world in this role. Is this something you are looking for, to be the bad man?

There is some evil inside me. There is a little evil that brought it out there and explores it. There is good and bad in all of us, so it is very fun to indulge in those aspects of me and do something different.

Moriaarty is classic Baddie, iconic. Is there a role, evil, or otherwise, you still want to take over?

I love to play Genghis Khan. Vice in several ways, but also very complicated. I am obsessed with Genghis Khan and the history of the Mongol Empire. It is very cool for me. A very complicated person. This will be really fun.