Hong Chau explains how she went from struggling to book auditions to soaring in films like TheMenu and TheWhale while on ColliderLadiesNight!
It may have taken Hong Chau longer than she would have liked for consistent opportunities to come her way, but it’s happening now and she’s proving that this industry should have taken notice far sooner.
After seeing her work in The Menu, The Whale, HBO’s Watchmen, and then some, it’s abundantly clear that Chau was meant to be an actor. Given that, it was quite shocking to hear that being in front of the lens wasn’t Chau’s original goal. She explained: “I was very introverted and I had a hard time just talking, just speaking, and I recognized that that was a problem and that it was gonna hold me back in life and so I started to take public speaking classes. And then that led me to taking improv classes, and I hated it. Oh my gosh, Perri, let me tell you how much I hated [it]. I felt nauseous before every class and then sometimes afterward too because I was so petrified. I just had a hard time spitting anything out of my mouth. It was that bad.
For a period of time, it wasn’t a matter of auditioning and not booking roles. The problem was getting her foot in the door to audition at all. Eventually, those opportunities did come, but as Chau explained, they weren’t breakout-type situations, rather, it was a slow build. She began: “Inherent Vice was my first film and then Downsizing was my second film, and that was also another opportunity where they were seeing everybody for that. After I had auditioned for Downsizing, I don't remember who it was, I don't know if it was my brother or somebody else from my family sent me something that they saw on the internet that was just like an open casting call, and it was in Vietnam where they were looking for non-actors. It said specifically, you do not have to be an actor.
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