Just last month, in the early stages of America's encounter with the coronavirus, Chinese-American actor Tzi Ma had a haunting encounter in his neighborhood grocery store: someone shouted "you should be quarantined" from a passing car. It was a shocking example of anti-Asian bigotry that drove him to spearhead a social media campaign called #WashtheHate, in which Ma and other Asian-American actors and celebrities spoke out against prejudice and discrimination towards Asians and Asian-Americans.   But of course, Ma is more often (and rightly) recognized for his decades of work as an accomplished character actor, from films like Dante's Peak and Rush Hour in the '90s to his recent boom of work in the 2010s and beyond in Arrival and The Farewell. In writer-director Alan Yang's Netflix drama Tigertail, Ma gets one of his most robust and complicated roles to date: Pin-Jui, a Taiwanese-American man and first-generation immigrant looking back on a life of sacrifice and dreams deferred.   On the day Tigertail premieres on Netflix, I sit down with Ma to talk about the film, the responsibility of embodying an analogue for the filmmaker's own father, the complexities of "Facebook acting", and the importance of tolerance and community amid the isolation and division of coronavirus. (More of a Comment, Really… is a proud member of the Chicago Podcast Coop. Thanks to Overcast for sponsoring this episode!)