Jon M. Chu has only recently begun to accept the success of his groundbreaking 2018 rom-com “Crazy Rich Asians” — although he still can’t enjoy it. The hang-up, he reveals o…
and actor Ally Maki in the virtual roundtable, organized in honor of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month in May.
“I’ve made enough money for these studios that I could actually get away with one. I could actually convince them to do one,” he recalls, noting that it was the social media hashtag #StarringJohnCho that first convinced him an all-Asian cast was viable. “Crazy Rich Asians” starred Constance Wu, Michelle Yeoh and then-newcomer Henry Golding.
“The difficulty is if they say, ‘Oh, well, we don’t have any Asian faces that have enough star power to justify a movie this size,’ and you say, ‘Well, there’s maybe no Asian Americans with that kind of star power, because you never made a movie that put them in a position that allowed them to build their star power,” the “The Farewell” helmer observes.
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