Greta Lee

Lee says she was a powerful hostess who was encouraged to be mean to customers.

“I was a hostess. I was, like, basically encouraged to be mean”

Good Hang with Amy Poehler: Greta Lee (Jun 23, 2026) · Listen from 32:42

Lee recalls that during her Momofuku years chefs were treated like rock stars, which made the work exciting.

“it's just it's like chefs were rock stars. And being a part of that was really exciting for all of us”

Good Hang with Amy Poehler: Greta Lee (Jun 23, 2026) · Listen from 31:33

Lee says she plays the main new villain in Toy Story 5, an iPad named Lily Pad.

“I play the villain, the main new villain. Oh my God, exciting. I play an iPad”

Good Hang with Amy Poehler: Greta Lee (Jun 23, 2026) · Listen from 1:05:32

Lee says Past Lives was a risk for her because she was unsure she could act in Korean and had to suppress her instinct to improvise.

“I had no idea if I was going to be able to act in korean”

Good Hang with Amy Poehler: Greta Lee (Jun 23, 2026) · Listen from 1:00:25

Lee says she initially turned down Russian Doll and asked whether her line could be shot once and reused.

“I asked you, I said, can we just shoot it once and you can reuse that?”

Good Hang with Amy Poehler: Greta Lee (Jun 23, 2026) · Listen from 52:52

Lee argues that her nail technician scene in Sisters works because status is inverted and her character is in control.

“I think when you're looking at people and for me in that moment, she is in total control”

Good Hang with Amy Poehler: Greta Lee (Jun 23, 2026) · Listen from 51:05

Lee recalls Rita Moreno telling her on the Old Soul set that she used her phone too much.

“I remember Rita Moreno told me I was on my phone too much”

Good Hang with Amy Poehler: Greta Lee (Jun 23, 2026) · Listen from 44:54

Lee says running repeated takes for Tron left her unable to walk, and production shut down the next day.

“we shut down production because the next day I took one step and I couldn't, I couldn't walk”

Good Hang with Amy Poehler: Greta Lee (Jun 23, 2026) · Listen from 42:09

Lee says a convincing on-camera drowning is indistinguishable from actually drowning.

“when it's really good, they don't know if you're acting or if you're dying”

Good Hang with Amy Poehler: Greta Lee (Jun 23, 2026) · Listen from 36:35

Lee says the intensity and extreme multitasking of being in the weeds at restaurants relates to acting work.

“the expression being in the weeds, what that can feel like and like the crush of it and how exhausting it is”

Good Hang with Amy Poehler: Greta Lee (Jun 23, 2026) · Listen from 35:25

Lee recounts that her mother invited herself to the Dior show by texting a screenshot of the LACMA announcement.

“I got a text from my mom that was a screen grab of a picture of LACMA”

Good Hang with Amy Poehler: Greta Lee (Jun 23, 2026) · Listen from 19:36