Rosalind Chao talks about her role in ‘3 Body Problem’

That's a video game? Where's the rest of it? That's it. What kind of game is this? I don't know. I played Pong. Alright, welcome back to GMA3. That was a clip from the new Netflix series Three Body Problem, a reality bending cross-continental adventure across time and space. And this new series will have you literally on the edge of your seat. And here now with more is one of the show's stars please welcome Rosalind Chow. This show's kind of crazy. Yes. Because the showrunners are the minds behind Game of Thrones. What drew you to this project? The showrunners behind Game of Thrones. I love them so much. I'm a little obsessed with them. I'm suffering separation anxiety because I'm not with them now because they were on the set from beginning to end watching every scene. So you knew that you were in good hands. There were no surprises afterwards. People didn't come up to you afterwards saying, what the hell? They're just the best bosses ever. And I knew it from the first second I met them that they were going to be special. Because I never watched Game of Thrones. I'd love to hear that. And you describe the transformation process that your character goes through as fascinating. Talk about the transformation and what was that like? To make a long story short it would be an hour and a half. She would make me scrunch my face and then glue things together that you never want to have glued together. Did that work? You get used to it. And then they would paint my hair gray every day. And then remove it with alcohol. So she would do me and then after an hour and a half look at me and say, I'm sorry. Not what you want to hear her make a part of. Well that's the amount of work it takes to get into this character. I want to make sure I do the character's name justice. So it's Ya-Wen-Jae. Ya-Wen-Jae. Got it. And you play a character who alters the course of humanity. Can you tell us about that character? Yes, well, yeah I'm just going to say yeah. Yeah, it goes through extreme trauma in her young life. And as far as she knows the world is falling apart. Not just her world, but the entire world. The environment is falling apart. People are behaving horribly to each other. And as far as she knows there is no way to save humanity. So she makes a big decision that then affects all of humanity and could destroy humanity. Wow. I'm so excited to see this. That's very deep and very dark. Yeah, but it's funny too at times. I don't normally like these kind of things, to be honest. But I love this. And even though I've read the script and seen the filming, I was on the end of my seat too. And were you sold instantly when you were offered the part? I never saw a script, but Alex Wu, who's also one of the producers, actually in a meeting they have him tell the story and at the end of the meeting my mouth was like this. But I tried to talk them out of hiring me, to be honest. What? I know, crazy, right? Because the age you know, I wasn't sure if we could do it, you know, but they are so can-do. These are the best people to ever work with, I'm just saying. You weren't sure you could do the aging process? Yeah, I just wasn't sure about the whole process and I hadn't seen a script. There were a lot of things involved, but you know, once I met them, they're very can-do. That's all I can say. Like when you watch Game of Thrones, that wasn't great by accident. It was great because basically all the actors feel like they can do anything. We're scientists. That's amazing. Well, Rosalyn, thank you so much for being with us today. Thank you for having me. And you can check out 3 Body Problem debuting tomorrow on Netflix. When she said frown and then bringing the glue, I was like... Every woman's nightmare. Right? More of awesome videos and content from GMA every day anytime. We thank you for watching and we'll see you in the morning on GMA.