“But what kept me going was the delusional hope that I’d get to work on a cool, weird movie, because those were the movies that I liked. “After a few years of trying, you think, ‘Is it really worth it to try to dedicate my life to this?’” Chau said.
But success initially proved elusive, and skeptical casting directors told her that booking anything more than a day-player role was beyond her grasp. After she signed up for an improv class to cure her shyness, her teacher encouraged her to pursue performing, and Chau moved to Los Angeles to seek parts. The 43-year-old Chau didn’t dream of becoming an Oscar-nominated actress: Born in a refugee camp to Vietnamese parents, she grew up in New Orleans and majored in creative writing and film studies at Boston University. “My honest reaction to the nomination was just relief,” she said. This time around, there was a better outcome, though she is still sorting out exactly how she feels about it. In 2017, after a breakout role in Alexander Payne’s “ Downsizing,” she’d been hotly tipped for a nomination that never came, the sort of anticlimax that can make you want to detach from the hubbub of awards season altogether. Though Hong Chau received her first Oscar nomination last month, for playing Brendan Fraser’s caretaker in the Darren Aronofsky drama “ The Whale,” it took awhile for the accolade to sink in.
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