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Sandra Oh says the UK is “behind” on diversity in the film and TV industries

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Killing Eve star discussed her experiences of working on the BBC show, in which she plays MI6 agent Eve Polastri.Speaking with Kerry Washington for Variety, Oh said she was “totally used to” being the only Asian woman on a set. “The UK, I’m not afraid to say, is behind,” she said. “I am not only the only Asian person on set, but the development of people behind the camera is very slow in the UK.

I don’t know about the rest of Europe.”The actor continued to say that while working on Killing Eve, it would sometimes be her “and 75 white people”. “I have not come from that in my film career, which has been much more independent and mostly working with women and women of colour,” she continued. “My relationship with television has not.

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