I want to tell you my secret now.

I see dead people.

Silent green is people.

Need my sister and my daughter.

Rushburn.

What's in the box?

Hello and welcome to another Slate Spoiler Special.

I'm Marissa Martinelli and assistant editor here at Slate, and today we're spoiling Crazy Rich Asians, a romantic comedy based on the novel by Kevin Kwan, itself loosely based on Kwan's own childhood in Singapore.

Directed by John M. Chu, Crazy Rich Asians, marks the first major Hollywood movie since the Joy Luck Club, which came out in 1993, that is centered around the Asian American experience.

Here to talk with me about the film is Slate staff writer Ingu Kang.

Hello, Ingu.

Hi, Maratha.

And making her spoiler special debut is Shasha Leonard, who writes Slate's IT column,

Try Restarting. Welcome to the Slate Spoiler Special, Shasha. Hi, thank you for having me.

We are here today to talk about crazy rich Asians. I have waited so long to say that.

How much hype has there been for this movie? So much hype. So much hype. And it lived up to it in my opinion. Just throwing it out there.

What about you, Ingu? Your review was a rave. You like this movie, too. I love this movie.

But yes, the hype machine is really on steroids to mix metaphors. Well, there was a lot of pressure on the movie, too, that comes with the hype in that, you know, much like we've seen with other movies starring minority casts, this had to be the movie as like a tester for Hollywood.

Is it going to succeed or fail?

And it's actually done really, really well.

It had a great opening weekend at the box office.

It's gotten hit reviews. And we are going to talk about all of that. Has anyone read

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