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Post by Ripley on Aug 28, 2016 21:45:23 GMT -5
...With her character, Alex, surviving the web series Fear the Walking Dead: Flight 462, Ang transitioned to the AMC television show earlier this year but had no inkling her webisode work would also lead to an Emmy nomination for Best Actress in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series. “I hadn’t realized I was even in the mix to be nominated, so it wasn’t on my radar -- plus I had just come back from visiting my grandmothers in Malaysia, so I definitely hadn’t been keeping up with the entertainment news,” Ang says. “I was so confused as to why we were on a conference call -- I knew I did something either really bad or really good!” Home alone at the time, Ang told her dog, but it took the rest of the day for the news to fully sink in. “When you’re from a smaller country and trying to be in the entertainment industry, you don’t want to think about how hard it can be and the possibility you might not even get your foot into the door,” she says. “At no point in my daydreams did I expect to be nominated for one of the big awards in America. Maybe in a funny fantasy sense! Standing here now and thinking back to little me when I was getting on a plane and coming here, it’s like, ‘Wow.’ There’s no way that girl would have known that she would be in such amazing company and a nominee at such an amazing awards ceremony..." link
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