Interviews With "Dìdi" Director/Writer Sean Wang & Stars Izaac Wang & Joan Chen

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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"Dìdi" had its world premiere at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, where it received positive reviews and won the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Best Ensemble Cast and the U.S. Dramatic Audience Award. Writer and director Sean Wang and stars Izaac Wang & Joan Chen were all kind enough to spend some time talking with us about their experiences making the personal coming-of-age story, which you can listen to, read, or watch below. Please be sure to check out the film, which is now playing in theaters from Focus Features. 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 these are Daniel Howitt's interviews,
0:05.0	the director and writer for Didi, Sean Wong, and the film stars Isaac Wang and Joan Chen.
0:11.3	What was your name again?
0:12.3	Chris, all my friends just call me a Wang Wang.
0:14.4	What should I call you?
0:15.7	Um...
0:20.0	You had never going to survive high school. You're like a lizard with your scaly ass
0:23.5	exima skin he's a face right lizard bitch just call me a bitch nobody lost you
0:32.0	i'm gonna drag me down daniel good to see you again yeah you as well shan i appreciate. I appreciate your time, man. Excited to talk about D.D. Of course. First and foremost, I was re-watching the movie and, you know, I was taking notes and thinking of things I'm going to ask you. And what are the guys calls Chris Spike Jones? And so, you know, I made a note of that. Oh, that's, you know, I'll ask him about that me about that. That's interesting. And then I'm watching the credits. And I won't say where, but Spike Jones is in
0:58.7	this movie. We have to start there. We have to start there. How in the world did that happen?
1:04.8	Tell me that story. Uh, happy to share. Well, it's my, one of my favorite things about the movie,
1:12.9	even though it's such a minor, I guess, cameo.
1:16.2	But, you know, Spike's DNA is in the, like, thread of this movie.
1:21.7	His work has had such a big influence on me.
1:24.4	Obviously, there's a, you know, a direct name drop in the movie. But I had the, you know,
1:30.9	really good fortune of getting connected with him and meeting him. I think our first week of post,
1:36.7	and we kind of just hit it off. Like we, it felt like meeting a friend, even though he's, you know,
1:43.9	obviously I'm wearing his company sweater right now.
1:47.5	And he was so unassuming and he was, you know, we just kind of really talked as filmmakers and talked about process.
1:54.0	And he had seen a short that I had made that was also a little embarrassing because there was a photo of me in it.
2:00.4	And there's a speech bubble drawn on it says
2:02.8	I love you Spike Jones and he was like I love the shore and he was asking me questions about it
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