When Teresa Hsiao (“Family Guy”), Cherry Chevapravatdumrong (“Family Guy”) and Adele Lim (“Crazy Rich Asians”) set out to write “Joy Ride,” the aim was to develo…
,” the aim was to develop a story that they wished they could have had seen in their twenties.
Says Lim, “It’s a crazy bananas movie and you don’t know how it’s going to be taken across the board. Of course, you want to hit it out of the park, but you also want to make sure the heart is true.”to discuss writing the script, working with Seth Rogen’s Point Grey, her casting process and stepping behind the camera to lens her directorial debut.
The story comes from girlfriends. We get together all the time, we do ridiculous things. But I think as a female minority, we don’t see that part of ourselves on screen very often, particularly for Asian women. The thing with casting an AAPI-centered movie is we don’t have as many known A-list feature stars in the American space. Daniel said, ‘I worked with this amazing actress on Broadway and you have to get to know her.’ That was Ashley. We got talking and the feeling was that the part was written for Ashley without ever having gotten to know her.As for Steph Hsu, I’ve been a huge fan of her from “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” to “Nora from Queens.
I have this wonderful community out here of friends and directors, Jon M. Chu, Veena Sud, and so many others who came out of the woodwork to help me. My first instinct was that I didn’t know anything about lenses. How do I learn about lenses? The important thing was having a handle on the story. We talk about wanting to put forward female-centered narratives and Point Grey was a tremendous ally.
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