Whereas talking with TooFab on the digital junket for her new movie Definitely worth the Wait reverse her co-star, Ross Butler, the actress detailed how she met the supervisor of the orphanage from the place she was adopted in Vietnam as a child.

As Definitely worth the Wait facilities on a gaggle of strangers who develop into intertwined in each other’s lives, Condor, 28, revealed she’s seen an act of destiny play out in her personal life — recalling how a neighborhood newspaper article about one in every of her first performing roles led her to in the end meet the person who gave her to her adoptive mother and father.

“I am adopted from Vietnam, and I haven’t got any, like, I do not know who my organic mother and father are,” she instructed TooFab. “I haven’t got any backstory of that a part of my life. However I did a film years in the past, X-Males: Apocalypse. And in Vietnam, the newspapers had run this piece about, ‘Oh, there’s this new Vietnamese actress, who booked, you understand, Hollywood American manufacturing. That is so thrilling.’”

“And the supervisor of my orphanage, … apparently, he learn the newspaper, and he noticed me, and he noticed my final title. And he knew that my mother and father, their final title is Condor,” she continued. “And he noticed the final title, and he was like, ‘I am nearly optimistic that [she] is the child woman [who] I used to look after.’ And so he reached out to me on Twitter, and he was like, ‘Hey, I do know this sounds loopy’ — and really a lot damaged English — however [he said], ‘I used to be the supervisor of your orphanage. I used to be the one who gave you to your mother and father.’ And naturally I used to be like, ‘No, there is no means. There is no shot.’”

Condor needed to, in fact, know whether or not the person was who he claimed to be, and requested him a query solely he would know.

“I used to be like, ‘What, if you happen to do not thoughts me asking — as a result of it’s a must to perceive my hesitance in believing you — what was the reward that you just gave me whenever you despatched me off to my new life?’” she recalled. “And the reply was a silk fan. And he was like, ‘It is a silk fan.’ And I used to be like, ‘Oh my god!’”

“After which a pair years later, I used to be in a position to return and meet him,” Condor added, earlier than reflecting on the wild story. “That in a means is a very loopy … as a result of he was a stranger, however wasn’t a stranger, and all these items, and the way life can form of convey essentially the most surprising folks again into your life in a loopy means.”

Butler — who was enthralled by listening to his co-star’s anecdote — chimed in, “Wow, I by no means knew that. Huh. God, what an incredible story.”

“I obtained nothing,” he joked.. “Like, I dropped my mobile phone as soon as on the sidewalk, and a stranger got here up and gave it again to me!”

Definitely worth the Wait — which is directed by Tom Shu-Yu Lin — marks Tubi’s first Asian American unique movie, starring an all Asian forged, and will probably be launched on Friday, as a part of Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month.

For many who do not know, Tubi is a free streamer, and subsequently, everybody can watch it!

Condor and Butler — whose mom is Chinese language-Malaysian — mirrored on the importance of starring in Tubi’s first Asian American movie, and their ideas on the film being launched throughout AAPI Heritage Month.

“It is such a pleasure, and I feel the truth that … it seems like good timing. AAPI Month is form of the place I thrive — the place we thrive — that is our month,” Condor stated with fun. “And I really feel prefer it’s such a pleasure to have the ability to rejoice all of the arduous work that our different castmates and crew and filmmakers put into this movie. And I feel it actually form of encapsulates who we’re as human beings and as a group. It is actually, it is a pleasure and phenomenal timing, for whoever behind the scenes did that.”

Butler added, “It simply feels particular as a result of actually all of us had been Asian, the crew is Asian, the director, the producers, largely we’re all Asian. So it simply feels prefer it’s very … what do the youngsters say? Asian coded?”

Definitely worth the Wait premieres on Could 23 on Tubi.