Sandra Oh Gets Candid About Her Relationship With Her Parents Growing Up: 'I Put Them Through So Much S--t'

Sandra Oh is on the cover of Porter‘s latest issue, out now.

Here’s what the Killing Eve star had to say…

On the bond that Asian-American performers have with each other and building a creative community: “There is just this bond [between us]; we’re the first generation. I look up to the African-American creative community because of the way they have created a sense of individual and [collective] identity. It’s almost too early for us in the Asian community. It just speaks to where I feel we need to go.”

On her relationship with her parents at high school: “I put [my parents] through so much s–t. I did a lot of improv in high school, and in my last year we had a big competition. I was applying to theater school at the time…and I did an entire skit with two people playing my parents about how I wanted to go to the National Theatre School. And my parents were in the audience. Awful! What kind of daughter does that?”

On taking her mother and father to see the billboards for Killing Eve in 2018: “This is what I really love about my parents. Not only is it, this is my daughter on this billboard, it’s absolutely an Asian face too, and that has a profound meaning for them, which we don’t need to talk about, but I know they carry it. And I know they carry it for everyone in their generation.”

For more from Sandra, head to net-a-porter.com.