That specificity makes the audience's experience more relatable and universal.ĬM: These are real relationships people have despite where you come from, the color of your skin or whatnot. You bring that to the table and you put it into the script. my father, I don't think he would say it like this, he would be more direct." So there were these back-and-forths where, if you grew up Korean-American and you have these shared experiences that you can only really understand as a Korean-American. Would your mom let you say that? I don't know if my mom would let me say." Or Keong would be like, "Well, I think like this in Korean. There were moments where I'd be like, "Yo, Charles. It was cool to have three Korean actors in one room with the director. That really helped a lot because there's a lot of scenes where we are on our feet and there's a lot of blocking. It was great to rehearse for a long time, break down the script and put it on our feet. JC: I met Charles and Keong, who plays our dad, the first day of the rehearsal. I've always been a writer, but the character really inspired me to do a lot of different things like that. I had a ritual every morning and listened to Say A Prayer For Me. The music that I was listening to changed.ĬM: I was listening to Tom Misch. There was an aspirational love, romanticism that I do strive for. The whole process for me was really embodying the character I was portraying. We connected with our characters on so many levels. In between the scenes, she brought a pop tart. That was within the first 20 minutes of meeting each other. Then we went from that to a very emotional, heavy scene. There was a scene where we're in this coffee shop and everything is very easy. Basically what they do is you meet for the first time and we had two scenes. How did you Yara find that chemistry?ĬM: This is a script and a story that we both believed in. One thing that you hope for with an onscreen romance is that the actors have chemistry. The movie is not about him but at least let's make him someone who we kind of like to hate as opposed to we just hate. The film adaptation was very close to the book so I spoke with the director and I said that we should really humanize this character because anyone can be a one dimensional dickhead. JC: If you read the book, you know the brother is a straight up asshole.
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