Ashley Park Recalls Sweet Message from Meryl Streep After Wrapping 'Only Murders in the Building' Season 3: 'Makes Me Want to Cry' (original) (raw)
The actress, who played Kimber Min in 'OMITB' season 3, opened up about the profound impact Streep's simple words left on her
Published on September 3, 2024 04:03PM EDT
(L-R) Ashley Park at the 77th Annual Tony Awards; Meryl Streep attends Pictures From Home Broadway Opening Night. Photo:
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Meryl Streep's touching message has left a deep impact on Ashley Park to this day.
On the Sept. 3 episode of Jesse Tyler Ferguson's Dinner's on Me Podcast, the actress, 33, recalled the final days of filming season 3 of Only Murders in the Building. Park was passing around a "fake playbill" for the cast to sign and eventually gave the book to Streep.
"You know how at the end of Broadway shows, when you leave a show, you have everyone sign your Playbill?" she explained. "I was like, 'Oh, that'd be fun. Let me just do that.' And everyone was signing their name."
(L-R) Meryl Streep and Ashley Park on Only Murders in the Building.
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"I gave it to Meryl and she signed it and she gave it back to me. And it said, 'I see you, Ash,'" Park recalled. “She was just like, 'I really, I really see you. You're doing it.'"
The Emily in Paris star opened up about how the moment made her realize that "anybody I interact with, who might be looking up to me in that way, what a difference that can [make]."
She added, "Like still, it's a year later, and it makes me want to cry.”
Ashley Park in 'Only Murders in the Building'.
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In Only Murders in the Building season 3, Park played Kimber Min, an actress starring alongside Loretta Durkin (Streep) in Oliver Putnam (Martin Short)'s musical Death Rattle. Fans of the Hulu murder mystery saw Park and Streep collaborate and duet "Look for the Light," an original song written by Sara Bareilles, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul.
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On the podcast, Park described Streep as a "lovely" person and recalled how ecstatic she was when OMITB co-creator John Hoffman pitched the idea. Though she told Hoffman she would "do anything" to bring season 3 to life, Park confessed she was originally scared of the possibility of her character being the season's killer.
"I was like, 'But please, because I'm such a scaredy cat, if I'm the murderer, will you tell me though first? Because I'm so scared,'" she recalled of her conversation with Hoffman. "He was like, 'You're not.' Because they really don't tell anybody until the end.”
New episodes of Only Murders in the Building premiere Tuesdays on Hulu.