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Greta Lee wasn’t actually the first choice to play Nora in Korean-Canadian-American playwright Celine Song’s stirring and heartbreaking debut film Past Lives, a wistful what-if tale about two ex-lovers who could have been together had it not been for geography.
“I was slowly, completely gobsmacked by what I was reading,” Lee, 40, recently told W Magazine recounting the first time she read the Past Lives script. “I cried a lot. Trying to read while crying is physiologically very challenging!”
“And then I auditioned and I didn’t get the job,” she continued. “It happens and sometimes it hurts more for certain things. A full year later, I got a crazy phone call: ‘Are you available to meet with Celine Song?’ I had blocked it out of my mind, it was a certain type of heartbreak, you don’t want to think about the guy who dumped you!”
Upon meeting Song about her “soulmate script”, however, Lee says the pair “fell in love with each other that day.”
Song’s great ability to move her audience through the modesty of humanity and the universal feeling of yearning for something that could have been, has seen the film garner five Golden Globe nominations—including Best Drama, Best Actress and Best Director—a feat for a first time filmmaker.
Lee, who is best known for her role as Stella Bak in Apple TV+’s The Morning Show (or Morning Wars if you’re watching the series from Australia), wore a pale lemon floor-length bimaterial ring dress from Loewe‘s Fall/Winter 2020 Collection to today’s Golden Globe Awards. She accessorised with Tiffany & Co. Jean Schlumberger by Tiffany earrings and a ring in 18k yellow gold and platinum featuring aquamarines and diamonds.
Lee moved about the red carpet at the Beverly Hilton—ever so lively—showing off Jonathan Anderson’s impeccable talent for draping. A cinched-at-the-waist soufflé for the senses, if you will. We love.
You can watch Past Lives now on Apple TV+.
