Everything Everywhere All at Once star Stephanie Hsu shared that she was once mistaken for actress Lana Condor on a red carpet.
The 32-year-old actress shared the story while talking about the Hollywood industry.
“This industry is weird. You have moments where you walk on a carpet and people are like, ‘Lana Condor, Lana Condor!’” Stephanie said.
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“It was just once, but it was very pronounced,” she told the New York Times. “In everybody’s defense, my mom also thinks I look like Lana Condor: She sent me a picture of Lana Condor a year ago and was like, ‘You look like this woman,’” she said.
“But after the Lana Condor thing happened, we were at a screening in New York, and a bunch of people kept going up to my publicist and the Daniels’ publicist, who are both Asian, and they were like, ‘Congratulations, your performance is incredible.’ And they were like, ‘Huh?’”
Lana Condor is a Vietnamese-born American actress and made her film debut in X-Men: Apocalypse.
Stephanie will have a guest starring role in the upcoming Disney+ series American Born Chinese. She has received a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for her Everything Everywhere All at Once performance.
“Even as a kid with ideas, I just never thought it could be me up there with my friends, making something I believe in that is being celebrated. I remember sitting in front of a TV when Halle Berry won at the Oscars — the only woman of color who’s ever won best actress — and I don’t remember anyone else who won that night, but I remember that moment,” Stephanie said.
“I’ve been reflecting on that a lot, because I didn’t realize how much I had deleted the possibility from my mind that I could actually ever be a part of this industry in a real way, doing something that I value and love. So to get to be there and feel this big hug from our peers felt completely surreal,” she said.
