Past Lives was the first time Greta Lee had ever been the number-one name on a call sheet, and also her first major dramatic realism role after years of comedic and improvisational work.
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Amy declares Past Lives her favorite film of the last decade and pushes Greta to describe what making it actually felt like. Greta reveals the most specific challenge: she had spent her career improvising, filling gaps, generating comedy. Céline Song's meditative realism required the opposite. There's a self-aware, funny moment where Greta imagines what Past Lives would look like if she'd kept her impulses: 'Huh, Michael, where'd you get that? Russ and Daughters?' Céline would've shut it down immediately. Greta also notes that Past Lives was the first time she was number one on a call sheet, the first time she acted entirely in Korean on film, and the first time she allowed the camera to hold on her face, doing nothing, for what she measured as a couple of minutes — a challenge that required genuine courage to sit with. She adds that she was not nominated for an Oscar despite the widespread acclaim, and observes that almost no one knows this.
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