First Look: ‘Joy Ride,’ starring Ashley Park, Stephanie Hsu, Sherry Cola, and Sabrina Wu, follows a group of friends as they travel to China, where their debauched trip goes off the rails.
the writers and actors all acknowledge that a wild comedy starring four leads of Asian descent wasn’t something they’d ever seen before. “There’s a certain way Asian American women particularly are portrayed in TV and film—there’s a lot of exoticization and fetishization,” says Lim, who makes her directorial debut with the film that has a script by Hsiao and Chevapravatdumrong.
, I realize it might be the first Zoom I’ve ever done with so many Asian faces staring back at me. It’s definitely the first Zoom call I’ve done about a wild, raunchy studio comedy starring all Asian faces.starts off following Audrey , a successful lawyer who is taking a business trip to Asia and brings along her slacker artist childhood best friend Lolo to help translate for her.
. “I may not have known everything I wanted to about directing, but I knew this story forwards and backwards,” reflects Lim, who saysserved as a friend and mentor through the process. “And I felt like, at least, I would be on set and be there to make sure that we got the core tenets of the story right. It’s such a difficult balancing act with everything the story had to achieve, with everything each one of these characters had to bring to life.
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