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Alison Roman
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Celebrity chef Alison Roman opened her brick-and-mortar grocery store First Bloom in the Catskills in 2023 and plans to open a second location in Brooklyn later in the year.
Greta Lee was the hostess at David Chang's Momofuku and was 'basically encouraged to be mean.' Telling walk-ins they'd wait four hours wasn't a time estimate — it was a polite way of saying the table was never coming.
Performing a drowning scene means actually choking, actually swallowing water, and actually suffering — and the better you are at it, the more you'll be hired to do it again. Greta Lee's rule: don't be good at things you don't want to do.
The hardest part of Past Lives wasn't speaking Korean on camera or carrying the film — it was learning to sit in silence without making a joke. Greta Lee's survival mechanism is improvising. Céline Song needed her to stop.
Celebrity chef Alison Roman regularly pipes up at butcher shops to save strangers from terrible grilling decisions. Eight out of ten times, they are completely uninterested. She compares it to being a doctor on a plane who nobody asked for.
Greta Lee grew up speaking Korean in Canarsie, Brooklyn, won the Bach Festival, conducted a children's choir without being asked, acted in iambic pentameter on the West End, and worked a restaurant floor for five years — all before anyone knew her name.
Greta Lee performed La Bête on the West End alongside Mark Rylance. The play was in iambic pentameter, set in 16th-century France, and her character could only speak words that rhymed with 'blue.' This is an actual thing that happened.
Greta Lee said the iconic Russian Doll birthday line the way she said it once, immediately recognized it was the right read, and had to reproduce that exact version for every subsequent take across the entire series — whether she felt it landed perfectly or not.
Greta Lee's mother saw a photo of LACMA hosting the Dior Cruise show and texted it to her daughter without a word — an announcement, not a question. Her father came too because it wasn't fair otherwise. They grabbed every blanket they could find.
On the set of an Amy Poehler pilot with Rita Moreno, Greta Lee received unsolicited phone-usage feedback from the Hollywood legend — and says she thinks about it to this day, even though she barely considers herself phone-addicted.
During the Sisters shoot, supporting cast members — including Kate McKinnon, Bobby Moynihan, and Greta Lee — were housed in tiny plywood boxes on a soundstage built around a fake sinkhole that began to smell and decompose. Nobody asked them to do anything for weeks.
Greta Lee ran an estimated 13 miles in a single night on the Tron shoot, sprinting repeatedly along a pier. She shut down production the next morning because she literally couldn't take a single step.
Greta Lee spent roughly five years working the Momofuku restaurant floor while bouncing in and out of acting jobs. That extreme multitasking — being 'in the weeds' every night — is exactly what performing on set demands, just with a different kind of chaos.
Greta Lee initially said no to Russian Doll. She couldn't imagine saying the same line over and over — she literally asked producers to just shoot it once and reuse the footage. She said yes anyway, and the line became one of TV's most memorable resets.
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