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Elodie Yung on challenges, real-life loss on 'The Cleaning Lady'

Elodie Yung has shown how a strong  and resilient female Asian lead can thrive on primetime TV in "The Cleaning Lady."

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Yong Chavez

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<div style="color:rgb(36, 36, 36);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0px"><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-bS4EWCtZQg?&amp;ab_channel=ABS-CBNNews&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div><div style="color:rgb(36, 36, 36);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0px"><br/></div><div style="color:rgb(36, 36, 36);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0px"><span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">Elodie Yung has been playing the heroine Thony dela Rosa for three seasons now in the U.S. crime drama &quot;The Cleaning Lady.&quot;</span></div><div style="color:rgb(36, 36, 36);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0px"><br/></div><p style="color:rgb(36, 36, 36);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0px">Thony is a Cambodian doctor who used to live in the Philippines where her <strong><em><u></u></em></strong><em><u></u></em><em><u></u></em><em><u></u></em><em><u></u></em><strong><em><u></u></em></strong>late husband was from.</p><div style="color:rgb(36, 36, 36);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0px"><br/></div><div style="color:rgb(36, 36, 36);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0px"><span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">To seek advanced treatment for their critically ill son, she became an undocumented immigrant in the U.S., and in a twist of fate, became an unwilling accomplice for a criminal organization.</span><span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black"></span></div><div style="color:rgb(36, 36, 36);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0px"><br/></div><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/2024/3/6/-the-cleaning-lady-gets-more-filipinos-cast-storyline-set-in-ph-1633">&#x27;The Cleaning Lady&#x27; gets more Filipinos cast, storyline set in PH</a></div><div style="line-height:1.3;padding:0px;display:inline-block;text-size-adjust:none;position:absolute;left:0px;top:0px;width:600px"><div style="display:flex;padding:0px;overflow:hidden;align-items:center"><br/><br/></div></div><div style="color:rgb(36, 36, 36);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0px"><span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">This season, Thony has been facing even greater challenges that put <strong><em></em></strong>Yung through scenes that are demanding both physically and emotionally.</span></div><div style="color:rgb(36, 36, 36);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0px"><br/></div><p style="color:rgb(36, 36, 36);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0px">&quot;It is very high-stakes,&quot; she said of her role. &quot;The show puts me under pressure pretty much constantly. But every moment she has to go through, I try to treat it as something that could really happen to me.&quot;</p><div style="color:rgb(36, 36, 36);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0px"><br/></div><p style="color:rgb(36, 36, 36);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0px">Yung added: &quot;The acting trick is to laugh a lot because I need the release. I need this and I need that so I can go back in.&quot; </p><div style="color:rgb(36, 36, 36);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0px"><br/></div><p style="color:rgb(36, 36, 36);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0px">The themes explored on the show mirror some of the real-life stories of marginalized immigrants who are unable to access healthcare and resources in America.</p><div style="color:rgb(36, 36, 36);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;margin:0px"><br/></div><p>The show has several Filipino cast members including Martha Millan, as well as Sebastien and Valentino Lasalle who share the role of Thony&#x27;s son Luca.</p><p>It’s Thony&#x27;s resilience and love for her family that keep viewers rooting for her.</p><p>&quot;I’m a mom as well so I can’t bring the whole heaviness of Thony’s day to my daughter,&quot; Yung shared. &quot;It&#x27;s not as if I&#x27;m Method or anything, but I am affected by Thony, for sure, as it happens with everybody.&quot;</p><p>&quot;It’s not a conscious choice. It seeps in, you know. Or it’s pulled out of you,&quot; the actress added. &quot;Whatever she&#x27;s going through, it is a real thing for me.&quot;</p><p>This season, “The Cleaning Lady” family suffered a real-life heartbreaking loss with the passing of its leading man, Adan Canto.</p><p>The actor played Thony’s ally and romantic interest, Arman. Yung wept and struggled to keep her composure as she talked about Canto.</p><p>&quot;I know he&#x27;s good where he is,&quot; said Yung. &quot;It&#x27;s been really hard for us. He&#x27;s been so much part of this project, a wonderful partner for me.&quot;</p><p>She added: &quot;It&#x27;s been just grieving all together. This team is very much a family. We&#x27;ve been working together for years now, so it has affected everyone.&quot;</p><p>&quot;The Cleaning Lady&quot; dedicated most of its recent episode to Canto, who died in January at the age of 42, after a battle with appendix cancer.</p><p>The show airs Tuesdays on Fox, and the next day on Hulu.</p>

<p>Elodie Yung has shown how a strong and resilient female Asian lead can thrive on primetime TV in "The Cleaning Lady."</p>

Elodie Yung has shown how a strong and resilient female Asian lead can thrive on primetime TV in "The Cleaning Lady."

Elodie Yung shares on-screen challenges, real-life loss on 'The Cleaning Lady'

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Elodie Yung shares on-screen challenges, real-life loss on 'The Cleaning Lady'

Yong Chavez,

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Published Apr 20, 2024 09:44 PM PHT

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