Everyone’s ready to watch Greta Lee, and the actress is feeling the pressure of being seen
Kenzo top, $750 at kenzo.com. Max Mara skirt, $595 at Max Mara New York, 813 Madison Ave. Photo: Shaniqwa Jarvis At this rate, Greta Lee has about seven good years left with her teeth.
Atlantique Ascoli top, $813 at theline.com and The Apartment by The Line, 76 Greene St. Gucci pants, $890 at gucci.com and select Gucci stores nationwide. Cano earrings, $210 at canojewelry.com. Cano bracelet, $180 at canojewelry.com. Now, she and Jason Kim — formerly a writer for Girls and currently a producer on the hitman comedy Barry — are writing and developing KTown for HBO, a dark comedy about the Kang family, kingpins in L.A.’s Koreatown.
Miu Miu dress and jacket, prices upon request at select Miu Miu boutiques and miumiu.com. To help channel her relentless energy, Lee’s parents enrolled her in classical singing lessons, shuttling her to competitions all around California. It wasn’t until years later, when she was studying theater at Northwestern that she first understood she could be funny. She didn’t grow up worshipping Saturday Night Live like so many of her comedy peers.
“We need people to be advocates,” she goes on. “Viola Davis talked about this with her Emmy’s speech: ‘I’m only as good as the opportunities I’m given.’ And that’s so loaded. Because we’re beholden to people, and I want to make my own opportunities, and I want to be empowered and in control. But we’re not quite set up yet.”
The choice to make the Kangs criminals has been met with some anxiety from people concerned about the impact of an Asian-American Sopranos. Lee understands where they’re coming from. “This is the result of being so underrepresented,” she explains. “To have a chance to represent a group, of course people are going to feel protective. Like, don’t make us look bad!” But overall, the response has been overwhelmingly positive.
When I call Lee again a few weeks later, she’s well into her second trimester and says she’s struggling, as she did when she was pregnant with Apollo, with the cognitive dissonance of pregnancy. “It’s so hard to reconcile how weird it is to be a mom, and to feel empowered to bring to life a human, while simultaneously being told pretty explicitly by other forces in the world that women are worthless, if not less than.
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