‘3 Body Problem’ Cast And Character Guide: Meet The Actors

Previous work: “The Pleasure Luck Membership”

Character speciality: Astrophysics

How would you describe this present in 15 phrases or much less?

What occurs when the actions of 1 younger girl — her fateful determination — adjustments the course of humanity.

How would you describe your character?

So I might say that Ye is a survivor of utmost trauma, and he or she’s misplaced the whole lot. Consequently, she’s discovered a type of adaptability, and he or she additionally has a little bit of survivor’s guilt. She’s a mom. And on the identical time, she believes that she has the ability to impact change, and I believe she goes about it in one of the simplest ways that she feels potential.

Inside her, she’s nonetheless partly the younger Ye, as a result of she was a prodigy, and that also exists in her. And that perception in herself, that her selections are the precise selections, and she will be able to impact change. Even when all goes to crap, she will be able to impact change.

Did you learn the books earlier than you signed up?

I’m right here [in the U.S.], and have that American tunnel imaginative and prescient. So, I’m a philistine and had not heard of a ‘Three-Physique Drawback’ till Benny Wong — we had been each in London, engaged on completely different tasks, and he advised me he was engaged on this. And I used to be like, “What’s that?” However then I did learn the e-book. I had a Chinese language coach who insisted I learn the e-book earlier than I begin filming this, and he was very strict.

However as soon as I learn it, I bought so many copies for different individuals, as a result of I actually do really feel it’s accessible. And so they’ve made it much more accessible. I used to be actually drawn in, and love the books, though I’m not, — I’m a nerd, however I’m not a sci-fi fan in any respect.

And so far as what I took away from it, it’s that point is elastic.

Do you imagine that humanity will are available in contact with clever extraterrestrial life?

I imagine something’s potential. You understand, undoubtedly earlier than this, anyone would say one thing about extraterrestrials, and inside I’d be rolling my eyes and like, “Oh, yeah, it might occur.” However now I’m somewhat extra open to “something’s potential.” We don’t know what’s on the market. Simply what we see, really feel, hear and contact will not be essentially what’s actual. There’s much more on the market that we’re not conscious of.

How did you’re employed with Zine Tseng to create the character?

Zine had filmed her part first. Her final day was my first day, so I acquired all her footage previous to beginning. I principally lived Zine earlier than I even met her. So once I met her, it was like assembly a celeb — or assembly one other facet of me. Truthfully, she constructed the construction, she laid the inspiration.