Chappell Roan isn’t just your favorite artist’s favorite artist — she’s your favorite actor’s favorite artist, too.

So said Killing Eve star Sandra Oh, who sang Roan’s praises this week on the red carpet at the Toronto International Film Festival. When BuzzFeed Canada asked Oh for her song of the summer, she couldn’t pick just one hit from the rising pop star’s debut album The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess.

“You know Chappell Roan? Basically the entire album,” Oh said. “I’m so sorry — it was just, like, on repeat.”

The interviewer then asked Oh if she “[has] a top” — a choice of phrasing that understandably stopped Oh in her tracks — before clarifying that they meant a favorite song from the album. Oh quickly replied with the anthemic “Pink Pony Club.”

“Even being here at TIFF all these years later, I still feel the beginning of that song,” she explained. “I still feel what it feels like to be your age, to go, ‘Everything is starting, and I’m just gonna take this, this, I’m gonna do my sh*t, and have a good time.”

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Fans of both Roan and Oh were beside themselves at the crossover. Oh is no stranger to sapphic pop culture — just take her starring role in the tantalizingly quasi-queer Killing Eve, or her gay roles in Under the Tuscan Sun and the play Stop Kiss — so seeing her fawn over an out-and-proud lesbian like Roan only makes sense.

Others couldn’t get over Oh’s look of disbelief at being asked if she has a top. Oh herself is a straight woman (as far as the public knows), but she clearly still knows gay lingo when she hears it.

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