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3 Body Problem Made Rosalind Chao a Braver Performer


And inspired her to watch herself onscreen for the first time in decades.

“We were shooting on a cliff in Spain,” Chao recalls, referring to the final scene for her character, political prisoner turned pro-alien cult leader Dr. Ye Wenjie. Faced with the culmination of her life’s work — public acknowledgment of the San-Ti — and the destruction of most of her acolytes at the hands of the British government, Ye returns to the site of her first contact with the alien race to jump to her death. Weiss — whom Chao refers to as “the boys” — the Netflix adaptation of Cixin Liu’s novel combines heady sci-fi ideas, spectacularly creepy visuals, and a welcome emphasis on what we owe one another as people.

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