AUSTIN, Texas – The cast and creators of the raunchy new movie Joy Ride compare it with adult-rated comedies such as Bridesmaids (2011) and The Hangover (2009), but with Asian women taking the lead on both sides of the camera. Opening in Singapore cinemas on Thursday, the...
Park, the 32-year-old Korean-American star of Netflix comedy series Emily In Paris , agrees.
“Now, we can laugh at ourselves and we are laughing at ourselves, and we’re completely imperfect, messy, turning every stereotype on its head and being unapologetically wild,” says the 32-year-old. The film sees childhood pals Audrey and Lolo take a trip to find Audrey’s birth mother, accompanied by their friends.Lim, making her directorial debut with this movie, says she got plenty of support from friends such as Chinese-American director Jon M. Chu, who helmed Crazy Rich Asians and whom she says “was there for me”.
“Then as the cast started to come together, I was, like, this is going to be something special, and I went to the first test screening and people just really loved it.”
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