Oh, Barcelona!
by Mark Seal
Oh Barcelona!
Taking a break from her busy career,
The Night Listener's
Sandra Oh went to
Spain and "learned to do nothing."
"I was introduced to
Barcelona by an old, dear theater-school
friend, Andrew Tarbet, who lives there with his girlfriend," says
Sandra Oh, who came to Barcelona on a rare break from her
increasingly hectic career. "I found myself with a few weeks to
spare last year - and have always had an open invitation - so I
decided to take the trip. It was the place where I learned to
sleep. Learned to do nothing, to commune with the sun and the sand
and to enjoy watching the people go by." She was on hiatus from her
Golden Globe-winning role as Dr. Cristina Yang on the hit ABC
series
Grey's Anatomy and still reeling from the acclaim of
her star turn in the on-the-road wine movie Sideways. She was going
to spend her off-season working on an independent film in Korea.
"But the funding fell through, so I had nothing planned," she says.
She looked down at the blanks in her calendar and thought,
Barcelona!
Born and raised in
Ottawa, Oh was already in ballet lessons at age
four and in her first play at age 10. She beat out more than 1,000
hopefuls for a Canadian Broadcasting Company television film, and
since then, her vacations have been increasingly rare. This month,
she stars with
Robin Williams, Rory Culkin, and Toni Collette in
the psychological thriller The Night Listener, based on the
best-selling book by
San Francisco writer Armistead Maupin. She
also returned to the stage in the dramatic play Satellites, which
just completed its run last month at the Public Theater in New York
City. But in a moment of rare repose, here's
Sandra Oh in Barcelona
… before she went back to work.
What's the first thing you did in Barcelona?
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