Interview With "Rosemead" Star Lucy Liu

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

"Rosemead" is a drama film, directed by Eric Lin in his directorial debut, from a screenplay by Marilyn Fu, based on a 2017 LA Times column by Frank Shyong. It stars Lucy Liu as an ailing woman who is stricken by the discovery of her teenage son’s violent obsessions and must go to great lengths to protect him, and possibly others, in this portrait of a Chinese American family. The film premiered at the 2025 Tribeca Festival to positive reviews, particularly for Liu, who received the best notices of her career. Liu was kind enough to spend some time speaking with us about her experience working on the film, which you can listen to below. Please be sure to check out the film, which is releasing in theaters on December 5th from Vertical Entertainment. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast and this is Cody Derrick's interview with the star of the film Rose Mead, Lucy Liu.
0:08.0	This isn't going to just go away like some cold.
0:11.8	He needs to learn to live with it.
0:13.4	You both do.
0:17.2	Dr. Xu, just because of your hair of Chinese face, is not mainly your understanding us.
0:27.6	Joe, are you all right? We can take a break.
0:33.6	No, I'm okay.
0:39.3	Joe, he went to jail, No, I'm okay. Just the first time,
0:41.3	it's just the first time he's had an episode like this.
0:47.3	Your son, you know,
0:49.3	listen, mommy.
0:50.3	You know what's going to
0:51.3	you know
0:52.3	you to? Hi, Cody. Hi, Lucy, how are you doing today? Oh, good. Nice to see you. You too. So, Rosemeed. I mean, wow. Powerful is an understatement. And your performance specifically just really affected me. Thank you. I mean, it's a hard movie to watch. I'm not going to lie.
1:14.6	Yeah, but I want to go back to even before it got made. Tell me about the process of saying yes to this film.
1:22.6	What attracted you to the script and were you familiar at all with the real-life story that it's based on?
1:28.7	I wasn't familiar with it. I'd moved back from L.A. to New York like a while ago, so I had
1:34.1	kind of not been reading the local news. But I read the script first, and I found it to be
1:40.6	really unbelievable. So then I went and read the article, of course, and it really
1:45.9	broke my heart to know that this happened and that it could continue to happen because there's
1:52.3	such a lack of, I guess, advocacy for, I mean, this particular family, she really didn't know
2:00.0	all of the facts. And I don't think she was
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