This is a big week for acclaimed actress Sandra Oh.
She’ll be hosting Saturday Night Live this Saturday. In so doing, she’ll be the third Asian American woman to host the NBC comedy show. The other two women are Lucy Liu (2000) and Awkwafina, who took over hosting chores right after the debut of Crazy Rich Asians in 2018.
It might surprise some people to know that Oh is not a comedian. She’s an actress with comedic timing. That’s what makes her so good and earned her a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Dramatic Series, Killing Eve.
On April 7, the second season of Killing Eve will start on the BBC network at 9 p.m. Oh’s performance makes the show, fluctuating between hard-nosed detective to a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown, questioning her own motivation to capture the elusive cold-blooded assassin played to the hilt by Jodie Comer.
If you’re a Sandra Oh fan — and how can you not be after she paid homage to her parents in Korean during the Golden Globes awards show? — then this is a good week for you, too.
EDITOR’S NOTE: I know, I know. Technically, the eight days between SNL and Killing Eve is more than a week, but give me literary license, OK?
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