Interviews With The Cast & Director/Co-Writer Of "The Wedding Banquet"

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Andrew Ahn's remake of "The Wedding Banquet" had its world premiere at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, where it received positive reviews for its performances from its delightful cast, sharp writing, and sensitive direction. A remake of the 1993 film, it tells the familiar story, but this time primarily from the women's perspective, thus updating the film for modern times. Cast members Lily Gladstone, Kelly Marie Tran, Han Gi-chan, and Joan Chen were all kind enough to spend some time talking with Ema Sasic about their experience working on the film, while Cody Dericks spoke separately with Ahn, which you can listen to below. Please be sure to check out the film, which will open in theaters from Bleecker Street on April 18th. 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 Emma Sassick's interviews with the cast members for the wedding banquet, Kelly Marie Tran, Lily Gladstone, Han Gidjan, and Joan Chen, and Cody Derrick's interview with the director and co-writer of the film Andrew On.
0:18.4	A baby's going to change everything.
0:20.2	I'll teach the baby art and Chris will change the diapers.
0:23.6	You're getting me.
0:25.6	He would be such a good mom.
0:29.9	So would you.
0:30.7	It doesn't matter if it's Lee or me because we don't have the money.
0:36.9	His visa runs out in a few months and he doesn't want to go back to Korea.
0:40.0	My grandmother doesn't know I'm gay.
0:42.3	You come out, they cut you off.
0:43.8	Hi, everybody.
0:44.5	How are you doing today?
0:45.6	Hi.
0:46.1	Hi.
0:46.3	How are you?
0:47.6	Wonderful.
0:48.5	Thank you so very much for your time.
0:50.6	First, I just want to say congratulations on such a lovely film and every way impossible.
0:57.3	So making it even more exciting to chat with all of you. I guess I'll just kind of start with a
1:02.3	question for all three. You know, this film just has humor, it has love, it has so much joy in it
1:09.1	in every which way. As you were making this film, I guess could
1:12.8	you just kind of feel that when it did come out into theaters, it was going to touch people in so
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