Justin Chon has come a long way since he wowed Sundance audiences with his 2017 film “Gook.” The writer and director of “Blue Bayou” is many years removed from being “that funny Asian guy” from “Twilight” who directed and starred in the provocative black-and-white drama about two Korean-American brothers on the first day of the 1992 L.A.
race riots.
It wasn’t long until Chon had firmly established himself as one of the exciting Asian-American indie filmmakers to watch, following up with the 2019 family drama “Ms.
Purple,” which probed the generational tensions (and traumas) between Korean first and second-generation immigrants.Now,…The post Justin Chon and Alicia Vikander Search for the Definition of Home in Blue Bayou [Interview] appeared first on /Film.
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