Ashley Park attends the Joy Ride Los Angeles premiere.Photo:Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty
Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty
Ashley Parkis revealing her unique and clever way to get into character.
The actress, 32, tells PEOPLE that when it comes to truly understanding and embodying a character, her recent go-to strategy is assigning each one a signature scent.
“I’m such a sensory person,” she tells PEOPLE on the red carpet of the Los Angeles premiere of her filmJoy Ride.“I feel like smells take me back immediately to a certain time in my life or to a certain person.”
Park continues, “What I started to do is when I have a character, especially one that’s similar to me in some ways… to get into the skin of that person, I will go to a perfume place and find a scent that feels like that character.”
“And every morning before I go to set, I’ll just put it on,” she reveals.
Ashley Park attends the Joy Ride Los Angeles premiere.Araya Doheny/Getty Images
Araya Doheny/Getty Images
Park then shared that for the premiere she put on the perfume she wore while filmingJoy Ride.“I put on the Audrey [her character] perfume tonight and I was like, ‘oh my god, I’m in Vancouver. I’m doing this movie.’ “
An official synopsis describes theAdele Lim(Crazy Rich Asians)-directed film as a “hilarious and unapologetically explicit story of identity and self-discovery centers on four unlikely friends who embark on a once-in-a-lifetime international adventure.”
“When Audrey’s (Park) business trip to Asia goes sideways, she enlists the aid of Lolo (Cola), her irreverent, childhood best friend who also happens to be a hot mess; Kat (Hsu), her college friend turned Chinese soap star; and Deadeye (Wu), Lolo’s eccentric cousin,“the synopsis continues.
Stephanie Hsu as Kat, Sabrina Wu as Deadeye, Ashley Park as Audrey, and Sherry Cola as Lolo in Joy Ride.Ed Araquel
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“Their no-holds-barred, epic experience becomes a journey of bonding, friendship, belonging, and wild debauchery that reveals the universal truth of what it means to know and love who you are,” the synopsis concludes.
source: people.com
