At the 2025 Critics Choice Awards, Randall Park shares details with THR on his upcoming Shonda Rhimes show 'The Residence.' Plus, he shares his feelings about making a White House-based show in this political climate.
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00:00You play a bad guy. That's what I've heard.
00:03Yeah, I do. I do play a bad guy.
00:05I feel like that's against type for you. What is that like?
00:09I'm a very evil person, yeah, in real life.
00:11So it's great to finally be myself in a role.
00:16Well, congratulations on being out here tonight.
00:19I mean, how do you approach a presenter role here?
00:22Just, you know, look at the teleprompter
00:26and then read each word
00:29and then when they tell me to go, leave.
00:33That's pretty much what I'm focused on right now.
00:36It's like the bread and butter of it for the most, yeah.
00:39Any shows or movies you're kind of particularly rooting for tonight?
00:43Any favorites? Gosh, you know, I wish I would have seen more.
00:47I haven't been able to really see much of anything,
00:50but I did see Sean Baker's Enora and loved that.
00:56I was really blown away by that.
00:58That movie just kind of continues to stick with me, yeah.
01:03And I mean, Valentine's Day next week,
01:04any go-to romances or rom-coms that are kind of your favorites?
01:08Oh my gosh, Always Be My Maybe on Netflix.
01:11That's a good one.
01:15I mean, that one is, you know, I'd call it a classic at this point,
01:21but of course the classic of classics is When Harry Met Sally.
01:23I watch that every year, yeah.
01:26Yeah, will we ever get an Always Be Your Maybe 2?
01:29It seems like that. I don't know, maybe, maybe.
01:33We'll see, we'll see. And a new Shonda show coming up.
01:37Yeah, tell me about that. Yeah, it's called The Residence.
01:39It's coming out on March 20th on Netflix.
01:41It's a screwball whodunit in the White House.
01:47Yeah, starring Uzo Aduba as a detective named Cordelia Cupp,
01:52who's just the most sought-after, most amazing detective ever.
01:56And I play an FBI agent, Edwin Park, who's been assigned to work with her.
02:01Yeah. How are you feeling releasing a White House-related show in this moment?
02:08Yeah, you know, I definitely thought about that.
02:10It is an insane time to do a White House-related show, but I don't know.
02:20I feel like maybe our show will feel a little more normal than what's going on,
02:27what's going on in the actual White House right now.
02:30Although I have done a good job of really kind of tuning out of the news,
02:34just because it's also, it's just too much.