. Awkwafina plays Billi, who is forbidden at first to come on the trip because her parents don’t think she’ll be able to keep in her emotions.
In Wang’s film, a complicated story unfurls, one that questions the different ways people are expected to grieve and accept death.
For this particular case, I decided not to make the film at all if I couldn’t make the film I wanted to make. That’s why I did, because I had written a script already and had started developing the idea, but people kept being like, “Well, is it a Chinese movie or an American movie?” Based on what my answer was, they would put it into a totally different box, neither of which was the film I wanted to make.
When you’re making a movie like this that so closely mirrors your real life experience, even including members of your family in the film, how did you handle their expectations for the story versus your own?]. Their perspective of the whole thing is very different. Obviously, they went through their own traumas. But at the end of the day, because we’re different generations, we have different relationships to China versus America.
In the experience itself, when I was going through it, I didn’t ask a lot of questions, because I was so in my own feeling, and I was feeling so justified in my injustice. I [was] like,. I was so busy fighting the whole time. It wasn’t until I started working on the radio story and I started working on the movie that I even started to ask questions, because I got some distance. I was like, okay, if I’m going to tell the story correctly, I need to be a journalist and I need to investigate.
I’ve spent my entire life navigating different cultures and different languages and so I think it’s just my instinct to be a diplomat in many ways
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