Homicide Guest Profile: Bai Ling

Things I didn't know.

Bai Ling

[TW: sexual abuse]

It wasn’t a “blink and you’d miss it” kind of Homicide moment.

It was a minute and twenty-six seconds.

But yeah, if you were watching with your partner, and got a call on your phone, looked at who was calling, didn’t recognize the number, then decided, “Nah, they can wait,” hit silence, gobbled a handful of popcorn (cuz, come on), THEN remembered “Oh damn, Homicide’s on!”- turned to your partner who had a ‘wtf was that scene’ sorta look, then asked them, “Did I miss anything, could we please go back?” But, your partner shushed you and said, “Quiet!” leaving you oddly miffed at the shush because it reminded you of your very stern middle school librarian shushing you like that.

Then, yeah. You might have missed this scene.

Which would be too bad. Then again, that’s why I’m writing this..

If you saw it, was it memorable? Hard to tell if you didn’t watch And the Rockets’ Dead Glare four times in two days for the podcast you’re hosting. But, come on, was that scene memorable in any way? (Comment below, please)

The actress in the scene, being corralled by Meldrick Lewis, is Bai Ling. Have you heard of her before? Have you seen any of her films?

When she was hired for Homicide, she had done one episode of Guiding Light in America. That’s it. She was nearly a complete unknown. That would change after Homicide and her co-starring role with Brandon Lee in The Crow the following year.

But before all of that?