Sandra Oh says shooting The Chair during a pandemic was both 'joyous' and 'really hard'

Sandra Oh says shooting The Chair during a pandemic was both 'joyous' and 'really hard'

Shooting the entire six-part miniseries The Chair during a global pandemic was a challenge, but it also made for an exhilarating experience, said the show's star, Sandra Oh.
In The Chair, which streams on Netflix Friday, Ottawa-born Oh stars as Ji-Yoon Kim, the newly appointed chair of a beleaguered English department at a prestigious liberal arts college.
With tight time and pandemic-related health constraints in place, the crew and acting ensemble — featuring all-stars Holland Taylor, Jay Duplass and Bob Balaban — pushed themselves to an "instinctive place," which forced them to make decisions quickly, Oh said.
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"You don't have time to think or wallow or to doubt yourself," Oh told CBC News in an interview this week.
"And so everyone was ready to fly.
And it was quite joyous to make [the show] that way."

Still, the circumstances sometimes proved challenging for the cast.