Ali Ahn on ‘The Diplomat’ Season Two, ‘Agatha All Along’ and Auditioning From a Sailboat

Ali Ahn never expected to be doing one of the most important auditions of her career from the galley of a sailboat. The actress was at home for a few days in the midst of shooting “The Diplomat,” the hit Netflix show on which she plays Eidra Park, when she learned of an audition for a spinoff of “WandaVision.” “It was one of those things where I was leaving that day and I kind of threw it together thinking, ‘I’m never going to get this job.’ It was so far, and in that way I was really relaxed — I was just like, ‘I’m not going to get it, it doesn’t matter,’” Ahn says.  With that, she promptly left for a very “not glamorous” camping trip via sailboat with a friend and a group of strangers.  “I remember thinking, ‘watch me get a callback while I’m on this fricking camping trip,’” she says. Sure enough, the callback came as they were out at sea.  “I’m out in the middle of the sea, and everyone that I’m on this boat with, we’re in tight quarters, no one is an actor, I have no makeup with me, and they’re sending me new material. And I had

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