Filmmaker Alice Wu returns with a topical and inclusive take on 'Cyrano de Bergerac' starring Leah Lewis.
. Still, Wu spent years after the film’s release in short-term writing gigs before setting her cinematic ambitions aside and relocating to San Francisco.
“The Half of It,” however, would continue to evolve in its specifics. Though Wu had originally written Ellie, Paul and Aster as characters in their mid-20s, she told HuffPost she reimagined them as high school students who were “not self-actualized in a lot of ways,” yet “taking steps toward their future.”
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