White Lotus star Will Sharpe to direct the adaptation of Michelle Zauner's Crying In H Mart
“There were lots of things that resonated with me as somebody who is half-Japanese, half-British, spent my childhood in Tokyo,” Sharpe says of. “Some of the descriptions of being jet-lagged in your family’s kitchen felt very familiar to me.”
The Japanese Breakfast lead singer’s 2021 memoir details her relationship with her mother, who died of cancer in 2014, and her comforting ties to Korean cuisine in times of grief. The film adaptation is a “ coming-of age story about a half-Korean daughter who returns to small town Oregon to care for her Korean mother.”“I found that it felt universal in its specificity,” Sharpe says. “In that it’s so lovingly detailed about the experience of growing up around Korean food and the cooking of Korean food.”
He continues, “For me, it would be Japanese food and remembering growing up going to the 7-Elevens and the convenience stores in Tokyo and the dumplings that my mother would make when I was unwell. I felt like I could recognize that in the descriptions of the Korean porridge or the kimchi and how important that still is to Michelle and how food can carry certain other things within it about your life.
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