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My friend is auditioning for the play, she said on the phone a few hours later.

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We were talking about it because I was already familiar with the character that she was going in on.

She finally looked at her phone and saw the news.

(Archie Panjabi won an Emmy for Best Supporting Actress in 2010.)

She left the show in 2014 to pursue new creative projects.

Shes so good, that we here at Vulture named herthe Best Actress on TV.

Sandra Oh: Aleeexxxx, Aleeex, Aleeeex.

Sandra.[Laughs.]

But right now its a beautiful evening in London, Im at the bottom of my mews.

Im sitting on my little patio plastic chair and Im drinking wine.

What are you drinking?What the hell is this?

Im drinking a Chablis.

I try and be super-disciplined because its like I wont have a full bottle in my flat.

So I have a little mini like you only have two glasses in the bottle kind of thing.

Well, congratulations!Thank you, thank you.

So we were just talking about work; she was going to do the play.

And we just got new drafts of episode 201202 [ofKilling Eve].

And then I pulled out my phone and it was like,Oh, oh, oh shit.

Oh shit.It was so fun.

Youve been nominated multiple times forGreys Anatomy.

My friend is Asian-American, and she was downstairs and she screamed just like, Sandra!

because it came up on her Instagram feed.

Ive always felt like its not just me.

Let me tell you, Im not thinking of other people when Im doing my work.

But I know that Im part of my community.

I can tell you a lot of people are thrilled even as theres some sadness that this is historic.

You are the first woman of Asian descent to be nominated in the lead drama category.

How do you handle the weight of history?Ive got to tell you: joyously.

But I am not there.

I am just like,yay.

Lets be happy that we have this moment.

And let us build and have confidence and see ourselves in this moment.

One thing I will say is that Im disappointed thatKilling Evedid not get more nominations.

Its the best show of the year!Well, good.

You write that, baby, you write that.

Do you think Asian-American-ness informs your character on the show?Well it has to because I am it.

Because my face isnt anything that its not.

And she is just this singular character.

But how can we build culture into all characters?

Eventually the writing will be specific and be able to bring in character and culture.

I dont think we are yet here in our culture and storytelling in a lot of ways.

All those are in play.

Where does the terror come from?I dont know.

I dont know where were going.

What it is to create something is you have an idea but you dont really know what it is.

So theres a beautiful amount of unknown.

And Im not immune from it; the unknown terrifies me.

But I do know that a lot of wonderful things mostly creative things come out of that unknown.

If you might match it with truth and bravery, hopefully good things will come out of that.

Do you feel like your hair deserved a supporting acting nomination?Oh my God.

Can I just tell you, I love it when people pick up on my hair.

So lets hope theres a separate category just for hair.

What would she say?The hair?

Yeah.The hair would fucking thank my parents.