‘How do I deal with my rage? I put it in everything I do’: Killing Eve’s Sandra Oh on fury, friendship and hitting her prime in midlife
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- Sandra Oh is rehearsing the lead role of Alice in Martin Crimp's gender-flipped adaptation of Molière's Le Misanthrope at London's National Theatre — her first appearance on that stage
- Oh plays a novelist who is 'fed up with the flattery and dishonesty of the people around her,' a deliberate pivot to theatre she calls more 'collaborative' than screen work
- She previously played Eve Polastri across four series of Killing Eve opposite Jodi Comer's Villanelle, and spent nine years (2005–14) as Dr. Cristina Yang on Grey's Anatomy
- Oh made her Metropolitan Opera debut in Donizetti's La Fille du Régiment in autumn, after appearing as Olivia in Twelfth Night at the Delacorte Theater last summer
- On processing emotion, Oh says: 'how do I deal with my rage? ... I've been putting that in every single project'
- Killing Eve co-star Fiona Shaw ran into Oh at an LA grocery store and gave her technical advice about the Lyttelton stage over breakfast at Oh's house
Why it matters: Oh, 54, is deliberately pivoting to theatre and opera — work she says is more collaborative than screen acting — while channeling personal rage into 'every single project.' Her trajectory challenges Hollywood's youth bias, with Oh describing midlife as 'incredibly liberating and also enraging.'
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