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Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

Coming Together with filmmaker Lulu Wang

Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

LinkedIn

Careers, Business

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

As writer and director of last year’s standout film The Farewell, Lulu Wang was set to have a banner year. Her film cleaned up at the awards, winning accolades at The Globes, Critics Choice Awards, and the Independent Spirit Awards among others. Jessi was set to interview her for the show at SXSW in March. Then there was no SXSW. Now Lulu has thrown herself into collecting personal protection equipment for first responders. She talks with Jessi about what changes about her work—and what doesn’t—during quarantine.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm DC Marshall.

0:02.0

Hi, I'm Mita Malik.

0:04.0

We are the co-host of the Brown Table Talk podcast,

0:08.0

where we discuss how to help women of color thrive in their workplaces.

0:14.0

And we invite allies to join us to help women of color win at work.

0:18.0

We have a seat waiting for you.

0:20.0

Subscribe to Brown Table Talk wherever you enjoy podcasts.

0:24.0

Hey, it's Jessie.

0:30.0

Last month, I was supposed to go to South by Southwest.

0:34.0

I was going to be doing a ton of interviews for Hello Monday.

0:36.0

And one of the ones I was most excited about was this interview with this writer and film director, Lulu Wong.

0:42.0

And Lulu's having her moment.

0:44.0

She wrote and directed the farewell.

0:46.0

Maybe you saw it.

0:48.0

It was this movie about a Chinese family, the grandma had cancer.

0:52.0

Family decided not to tell her, but then they all wanted to see her.

0:56.0

So they concocted this elaborate story about how one of the grandkids was going to get married,

1:00.0

so they'd all have an excuse to get together in China.

1:04.0

But what the movie was really about was how the granddaughter, who is an artist living in New York,

1:09.0

how she made her peace with this weird kind of lie.

1:12.0

Anyhow, it cleaned up at the awards this year, the Globes, Critics Choice Awards,

1:17.0

Independent Spirit Awards.

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