From The Advocate magazine, I'm Jeffrey Masters, and this is LGBTQ and A.

Before our official season relaunch coming this week, I wanted to bring you this brand new conversation that we had with Alice Wu.

Alice is the writer and director of the half of it now on Netflix,

and the movie really captures that special period in a queer person's life, where you

have this attraction, this desire, you have that feeling of queerness in your body, but you very

much do not yet have the words or language to describe it. So you'll hear us talk about capturing that on the page and then screen,

as well as Alice's first film, Saving Face, the now iconic lesbian rom-com.

And then just a reminder, our new season debuts on May 28th.

You can listen to it on any and all podcast platforms.

And if you do, please help us spread the word on social media. Doing things like that really helps our show continue to grow. So

thank you so much for that. All right, without further ado, here's Alice.

I'm excited to talk because I find your career so exciting because it is proof of two things.

One, that it's never too late to pull a 180 and try something new.

You quit your career at Microsoft to become a filmmaker.

And also your new film is coming out 15 years after your first.

And I think that's equally inspiring because there is this myth in Hollywood that you can't take a break, that you can't

pause momentum. Did you ever have worries about that? Yeah. I mean, I certainly bought into that

myth. I thought when I left the industry 10 years ago, I thought I'd left for good.

I never thought I'd be back. And I left specifically because my mom had some serious health

issues that were acute. So I dropped everything to go to San Francisco to help her with that.

And then it just took a lot longer than I expected. And I remember the conversation when my agent

called me to be like,

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