From the L.A. Times Studios, this is Asian Enough.

Each week on this podcast, we talk to one Asian American celebrity about the joys, the complications, and everything else that comes along with

being Asian American.

I'm Jen Yamato.

And I'm Frank Schoen.

This week on the 12th episode of our podcast, we're joined by director John M. Chu. He's going to talk to us

about what life was like before his 2018 blockbuster Crazy Rich Asians. I was

too scared to sort of tackle my own idea of identity because I didn't know the answers.

We'll also talk about John's real life crazy rich Asians connection,

his parents views on raising Asian American kids and what he rich Asian

American kids and what he's working on next.

All right, let's do it. Asian Enough is presented by Little America, now streaming exclusively on Apple TV Plus and the TV app on all iOS devices and TV app on all iOS devices and TV app supported devices.

This advertiser has no influence over editorial decisions or content. John M2 is a filmmaker behind the movies Crazy Rich Asians. Step up to the streets and G.I. Joe retaliation, among many others.

He is a Silicon Valley native and a graduate of USC and his next film in The Heights is a

big screen studio musical very excited about it about characters who live in the

predominantly Latin next neighborhood of Washington Heights New York City City, and it's adapted, of course,

from the Broadway play of the same name, written by Lynn Manuel Miranda and

Chiara Allegria Hewdees. So, John, thank you so much for joining us remotely.

I'm excited to hear your voice.

I'm sorry that you're not here with us in beautiful El Segundo, California.

Well, I'm in a little edit room surrounded by all the stress of finishing a movie so

wait are you calling from your actual edit room from in the Heights? Yeah I'm in the actual edit room in the

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