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Our guest tonight is an accomplished actor in film, television, and theater who currently stars in the hit Netflix series Three Body Problem.

Please welcome Rosealin.

Show, What Yes Show?

Thank you ever happening to me?

Trying to get you on the show forever?

We're well so excited to have you on. I don't know if you know this, but Ronnie is only interested in having Asian guests on, and I only am interested in having women on the show.

So you're the only guy we got.

So Yeah, I've been watching you for ever. Love you. I've been watching you.

Careful, I've been watching I have so much blackmail on you.

Yeah, we've been talking. We've been talking a while now. So Ross. I saw her enjoy Luck Club and love that movie. What a classic American movie, the only movie I can watch with my mom.

Really, we both enjoy it just as much.

And so when I moved to America, I think, imeber, how I reached out to.

You or yeah, you reached out to me first about food recommendations in New Zealand, New Zealand, and you didn't use any of mine. We have different tastes in food. I realize, yeah, you like sausages and like really greasy? What?

And then this is slander. I'm known for good food.

No, you sent me the list you sent me. I looked through my text You sent me your list four times. I have not liked a single way that.

Wow, I'm sensing some conflict in this friendship.

Yeah, our taste. And then the place I took you to when I went back, you said, really you went back there again in Chelsea?

Yeah?

Well okay, anyway, yeah, okay, all right, you'll sad because I reashed out to you on Instagram. I was like, oh, Ro's big fan of yours enjoy Love Club. And then you came back and you called me and you said, why don't you have an American actor?

I didn't say it that way.

You said, I did not say that me.

Back, and you said, Ronnie, you know you can.

Okay, you tell me what you told me.

I'll tell you what I don't.

You called me to accent.

No, no, because you asked me about this the accent coaches I used on three body problems and I said, Ronnie, you really should try because you could be movie star. You could play I'm sorry. You know this, I forgot.

I kind of already forgot to get them.

I forgot I was okaying it here. He could be a box office star.

So we very Asian. I know you're hosting a daily show, but you know you could be.

This was before hosting the Daily show. Remember I said you should be one of the hosts of the daily shown. Right, Okay, you're embarrassing from keep going, going, bring out the black man. And then if we worked on the accent a little bit. I turned you on to these accent coaches. You never called them, and you wanted a freebie, and now you wanted it free from me. And so he would record

That, not just I hate myself. I also said, make America great again, but so great my American accent?

Has it improved? I heard a couple of missteps earlier. That's what the Boston accent is.

The ac is killing killing. Oh god, okay, here's here's my American accent. I hate myself, I hate myself.

You're back to the feat version of yourself. It's very feminine.

Okay, well, holds me.

I hate myself.

I hate myself.

I hate myself.

I hate myself.

Well, I hate myself better better? Yeah, there you go.

I hate my there you go.

Thank you, thank you.

I'm just waking him feel good.

Thank you for all the encouragement.

With up.

Okay, let's talk about your.

What is? What are you? What you're talking to promote?

Now?

Just go.

Right, he's mad at me.

Just I just talked in caps.

Yes, that's the other thing. His texts are all caps, and it's very stressful when you get it Roslin all caps, heart palpitation, heart palpitations. And then also the other thing that happens is once he starts texting, he doesn't know it's it's incess bond.

Stop bonding, bonding, stop bonding about what is?

What?

What? Okay?

Wellbody Body Problem on Netflix? You love it? You love it. I watched you watching the clip and you had a big grin on your face and he loves the retap. Great.

It is so much, so much, I know, there are so many incredible twist and turns. You're at the edge of your seat the entire time when you're watching it. How would you describe the show to someone who hasn't seen it without spoilers.

If you haven't seen it yet, I'm very disappointed in you, and I might ruin it for you, but you're still going to have to watch it. So it's about Ronnie. I can tell. I can feel you judging me. Can you do it? What you No?

In my head, I'm just thinking, wow, you are such an Asian mom. You're literally told audience are disappointed in them. We're not watching your prob I was like, yeah, please.

Describe, all right, but don't judge me. Okay. So it's what happens, and you can interrupt if you don't. Okay, will, it's what happened. It's what happens. So basically, my character makes a decision early in her life that changes the course of humanity, and the decision is made through trauma, extreme trauma. Am I allowed to say what the trauma is or not?

Ted surrends you can talk about.

But you took a sip so I thought that was a judgment.

Okay, So no, I think you can do.

My mom literally criticizes everything.

That's judgment.

My drinking water accent, Okay, is this American enough?

Can you drink and.

Tell people about.

So Three Body Problem, if you haven't watched it yet, is about basically what happens when someone makes a decision stop breathing so heavyly you do breath very you're breathing. I can feel you, like.

Okay.

So basically, my character makes a decision early in her life that changes the course of humanity, and it starts a whole stop it starts a whole sequence of events that involves people from Oxford, this young group of people from Oxford, and involves basically bringing an end to life as we know it. Let's put it that.

It's a like.

Comedy, but you know what, it's not sci fi.

I'm shown not into sci fi, and this is really about how people react under extreme circumstances, which we are enduring right now, right, I mean, yeah, it does feel that way. It feels like stop stop behavior self.

Yeah, we have a three Body problem right here.

But I want for you to talk about it because I love the project to It's based on a book.

Yes, I'm sorry.

For like eight years now, people have been telling white people have been telling me to read this book. And when people tell you to read a book, you go whatever.

I'll read it. When I'm dead or whatever.

And then and then last year, I finally because you you will announce that you're in the project. I was like, oh, I love ras. I want to see what this is about. So I started reading the first book of three.

First eight first, okay, okay, keep.

Going, correcting my pronouns. I'm trying to plug your stuff right now, you s. And then I read the first of three books and I couldn't stop reading it. I finished all three in like a month because it was like, I don't say it's lightly. It's probably one of the best books I ever read in my life.

Yeah, you remembered every detail and.

You remember telling you about it.

Yes, well, because I read the first one. I still haven't finished two and three.

Okay, okay, but your media rookie, you don't read the projects.

Yeah about you. But he Ronnie remembered every detail of the books and was texting me parallels of each item in all caps. But you you forgot some major storyline and point points. And I went back and I said, Ronnie, you need to watch it again. So you watched it twice, right, yeah, yes, yeah, yeah, and now you get it. It took you a while.

It is it's fascinating and it's a little dark, you know, it does feel like are we potentially getting a glimpse into our extremely dark apocalyptic future. But at the end of the day, underneath and all, it feels like it's really about humanity and what human beings do in times of crisis.

Exactly see why couldn't you said that? No, but that's exactly true. And there's a love story intertwined. There's a mother daughter relationship that if I start to talk about it right now, I might get a little for climped. But yes, there's there's so much drama, so many surprises in there that if you had watched you would know about.

It deals with a lot of big concepts, noncept environment, you know, and people are gonna say people are going to think I'm saying this to be all woke, be woken, whatever. But like when I read the book, it most mostly I didn't realize that all the sci fi I've watched and read my whole life has come from Westerners, because I don't even associate sci fi as the Eastern or Western thing. I just think of sci fi as sci fi.

Hero is going to save the.

Day, right, And this was like, oh, no, one's going to say they we're all in this together.

Yes, you know, and it takes that. It's it's global, so it basically it takes place around the world. It's not one country or another country against another. We all are joining together to save humanity.

Over great So well, I'm sure, I'm sure you deeply regret coming on we are, but I love that you did.

I so appreciate you here. Thank you, oh Ron.

Roland and three Body Problem and Sweet Tooth both are streaming on Netflix. Roblin Chow, welcome back to the Daily Show.

I guess the nice and Emmy Award winning actor you know as cousin Richie on the Bear, please welcome that most back.

Suck it out, baby, duck it very nice.

You guys are very very nice.

Very nice.

Must be nice to be uh an Emmy winner.

He's on the best show in America.

Congrats on your huge Emmy win. I don't know if you know this. We were sitting down the way from you and we looked over and we said to each other. We're like, oh my god, the bear is right there.

These are really good seats.

Yeah, we were kind of peppered throughout the Top Chef like team too.

There's a lot of Top Chef folks. I tell you, Yeah, well right.

In my row, I don't remember that. I remember that you ignored me.

Yeah.

I'm very upset about this.

Yeah, I have no no memory of you guys.

And then I love you on the bed.

Yeah yeah, yeah, it's the.

Usual reaction that Ronnie gets.

So it's okay, you have like a profoundly forgettable face.

Yeah, yeah, only forgettable.

We're such huge fans of the show and huge fans of your your character. The clip that we saw was from your episode Forks last season, which you cousin Richie goes on this like epic journey just in.

The course of this one episode.

You have such a beautiful arc does does cousin Richie get to continue down that path of evolution in the next season?

What are you allowed to say say whatever?

You know, whatever I want to say, what I feel, what I feel like saying, yeah, exactly, exactly exactly. You know, Uh, I don't know what your personal evolution is, like I mean, I think for Richie, you know, he's become aware that there's a path for him to find purpose and sort of live a maybe fuller life, a richer life in a way. But just because he's like aware of that path doesn't mean that he's like cruising up to the top, you know.

I think it's like a struggle forward back, you know.

Uh, you know when he when he've yelled for forty six years, you know, I think it's hard to maybe put the outdoor voice totally, like to retire it totally.

No, I think it's like it's like a is that kind.

Of liberating for you though? To play a character like that? Do you ever just want to mouth off in real life?

Yeah?

Like I'm I think of myself as a fairly socialized, like person. I live in I live in New York, you know, with many millions of other people, and you kind of have to you know, fall in line and if you sort of say what you feel every second every day.

Uh you hear that, Ronnie's So it is nice.

It is nice to walk in the shoes of like this man who is like fully expressed to a fault most of the time.

It's nice. Yeah, I blow some steam.

Yeah, yeah, when you I mean, I'm not just saying this would be nice, but I feel like it is very beloved show. Like at the moment, I feel like America I can't agree on anything other than the Bear is good.

Like everyone's always like all the Bear, everyone.

Else the Bear.

Great show.

And when you when the just as an actor, when the script comes in, like when you read that script, do you see did it pop on the page or you like I just need some money.

Like a combination? No, uh, it was. It's like one of those rare scripts where I did. I read it and like within a few pages, especially of this character, it just felt so vital and alive. Like a lot of the time I find myself like having to create a character a lot, you know, like the script is kind of open ended and you sort of have to figure things out and build and to create a lot, and this one he just felt really fully formed and I just had a strong connection. I also felt like

And because the director is also the writer of this, and so how much of that came off on the page when you because it's a very distinct visual style. The pacing a love is in the edit, you know, and it's so fast paces and anxiety driven. Honestly, when you watch it sometimes it's like wasn't watching the news when you're watching there was one episode, I don't think there's any cuts in it. All these are shots, so there's no cuts. You know, it's trying to make the

I don't understand your question. I don't even know if that was a question.

I'm asking when you read one, can do you know what the words mean? That's really comprehensions.

I have to memorize. We just read whatever they put in the prompter.

So it's very Yeah, that's true.

I thought, you know what, Okay, the level of anxiety.

I didn't find that when I read the script, because I love when I read. I read the first two scripts through the audition process, and you know, and and it was I just thought it was really funny and very sort of tender in a way. This this story about this kind of found family, a bunch of freaks in a way like or the misfits or whatever you whatever, were supposed.

To say that, like they that like found this home, you know.

And only when I watched like the first episode many months later, and it was so like frenetic and crazy and super cutting and choppy.

It reminded me.

A lot of like like skate videos from the nineties. It was like so kind of wild, and especially in the first episode where they're cutting like video games into it and it was like super loud. I was like, oh, wow, that is not in any way what I've envisioned the thing to be. Like so and I wasn't sure how I felt about it. I was like, I call my wife in and friends. I was like, what is this viable? Like are we going to go back? Because this was just a pilot. I was like, what do you think

Interesting you there's so there's such good chemistry between all of you and the cast.

It really really feels like a tight.

Knit family now for Ronnie and I to reach this sort of palpable chemistry wed you trust falls in the back. Is it natural for you all to fall into a rhythm or did you have to really work and rehearse to get there.

We did work. I think we did have like an eate chemistry. I think that's one of the strengths of the show is that Chris and our other showner Joanna, and our great casting director Jeanie, they put together a company and I mean, I don't know, everyone weirdly does really love each other and get along and obviously through shared experience and time together that kind of like that's how friendship grows.

Is that instructive for you guys?

There's something about like getting to travel and shoot somewhere else where you don't live.

You guys shoot in Chicago.

Yeah, that's a good point.

One person from Chicago. Two people, two people. We have a very important question for you. And I hate to get political, but Deep Dish or New York Pizza.

Careful now.

I don't know.

I've met a lot of Chicagoans who would say that Deep Dishes trash. They I kind of they think, I know, they got a tavern style thing over there, which is which is thinner, which I like.

There's also Detroit style a lot.

There's a lot of these Detroits now in Chicago, there's a lot of I I kind of have.

I like that more. I've had some good deep dish.

That's a very politically say Yeah, that was that was That was nothing.

That was some flip flop bullshit.

Chicago.

Serious.

You're you're about to start a Marvel movie.

Yep, fantastic for.

Yeah, what kind of what kind of training do you do you get to do?

Yeah, I'm playing Ben Gram who becomes the thing who's a man in Caston Rock.

So yeah, I don't know. I've just been looking at rocks.

You know, just kind of like you like the Stonhenge bit.

Yeah, they tell you exactly exactly. And he's scraping an orange. My guy's kind of orange too. I should maybe take this trip out there, he knew. Yeah, what am I doing?

I don't know. I've been reading a lot of comics.

It's been a nice just you know, they gave me like this kind of Marvel Unlimited thing, so I can just go my iPad and go to any comic book that Marvel's ever released.

That feels that's cool.

Yeah, well someone was in shang Chief for five seconds.

I will welcome you to the.

Marvel universe time, you know I did so.

I did a Marvel thing for Netflix years ago called The Punisher, Thank You. But when I was on a summer trip with my family in Croatia when I got like the when they asked me to do it. And so I got a call at two in the morning from this like Beverly Hills number, and it was the head of Netflix Marvel and it was like two in the morning and my you know, my wife and my daughters.

Were sleeping in the same room.

And he was like, Evan, I'm going to tell you three words that are going to change your life.

Welcome to Marvel. And I was like, oh, thanks so much man, that and it was it was so disappointed in me. I it was solfe.

Now you can scream.

Now you can scream.

Well, congratulations on all of your success and cannot wait.

Funny, thank you for being here.

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