#FRESH OFF THE BOAT CAST MOVIE#

For Min, getting to act against Park, and seeing him get Cola to break character and laugh, was one of the most fun days on set.

#FRESH OFF THE BOAT CAST MOVIE#

But that was less a product of him wanting to be in the movie than the nature of an independent film made during COVID-19. He also has a brief cameo in the film, as a waiter. “One of the reasons why ('Shortcomings') resonated with me so much was because I saw a little bit of myself in all of the characters. “I always wanted to see a movie like that where Asian American characters are just kind of hanging out in diners, walking in the city and talking about complex things and going through, you know, life stuff,” Park said. Park, who had directed episodes of “Fresh Off the Boat,” was influenced by some of Noah Baumbach’s films like “Frances Ha,” and Alexander Payne’s “Sideways” for “Shortcomings.” “It feels like for most of my career, they wanted us to play one thing. “It’s not a type of role that I’ve often seen for myself or got to play,” Min said. There’s a very human quality about him that made him really watchable.”įor Min, it felt like a revelation to play a three-dimensional character with nuances and contradictions. But Justin just gave the most interesting performance. “We saw a lot of great actors, and a lot of those actors were my friends and people who I really wanted to work with. But there has to be a deep vulnerability about him and a sadness and a humanity that people could identify with,” Park said. “There’s all the shiny things about him, the opinions and the tirades and and the snarky comments.

Casting Ben was a bigger challenge, he said, because he is a difficult, sometimes unlikeable character. Park had known Cola and Maki prior to casting the movie. But she kind of owns it, and she wants to do better for herself.” “Of course she’s flawed, she’s imperfect. “I love the overlap between me and Alice, the queerness, the Asianness and just like the loudness, the kind of recklessness almost, you know? The obnoxiousness and also the unapologetic ness,” Cola said in January. Min as Ben, had its world premiere at Sundance and is now coming to theaters Friday through distributor Sony Pictures Classics. “Shortcomings,” starring Sherry Cola as Alice, Ally Maki as Miko and Justin H. But he got a cooler gig out of it: feature film director. By then Park had, in his words, aged out of the role. It would take about 15 years for “Shortcomings” to become a feature. “And in my dreams it was like, ‘Oh I’d love to play Ben.’” “I remember thinking, gosh this would make an amazing movie,” Park said in an interview earlier this year during the Sundance Film Festival. They are all flawed, complex and figuring things out, sometimes inelegantly. The story focused on a twentysomething Japanese American man named Ben, who is trying to find himself in the Bay Area along with his girlfriend Miko and best friend Alice, who is a lesbian. PARK CITY, Utah (AP) - Randall Park was a struggling actor when he first encountered Adrian Tomine’s graphic novel “Shortcomings” in 2007.

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