Wedding Banquet 2025 Remake: Bowen Yang Reflects on Queer Identity

Bowen Yang It had a long and important relationship with Wedding banquet Before throwing a new edition 2025.
“I saw the movie for the first time in college, after I got out well. I was clearly aware Mount BarkakBut then in the college, I wanted to do my homework [director Ang] for me As a film director, “Yang, 34 years old, an exclusive participant with US weekly In the first show in Los Angeles. “Watching this was very echo because I was also hiding a large part of my life from my father too.”
Lee, 70, was directed by the original movie, which was first shown in 1993 Winston Zhao Way Tong and his friend Simon (Mitchell LestensteinAs a gay couple in New York City, whose life was poured into the flow when the Wai-Tung, the Taiwanese, is not aware of his sexual life, to marry an artist who is struggling in the hope of obtaining a green card. The new version, which was directed and written by Andrew Ahn, will rent Yang alongside Lily Gladstoneand Kelly Mary Tran and Ho Ji Chan.
In the new repetition, Yang Chris, an updated version of Liechtenstein Simon. He recalled the original movie that ends in “Understanding” when it came to the complex Wai-Tung trip with his family, but he also said that he gave him “hope” to his story as gay man.
“You are not really sure whether things will be fine or not. [His family hasn’t] “Exactly kissing him as gay man, but he still ends up with a gesture of love,” Yang explained the end of the 1993 movie. Thus, the check -in with it now, with the release of this version of it, is really beautiful and influential because that came. “

Yang shared that he now has a “truly beautiful relationship” with his parents about his style, and this is the ringing that has the original movie that I hope people can put a context with an amazing journey. “
Ahn’s repetition, of course, has performed some of the main updates since the story of Lee in 1993. The new movie raises the stranger with Gi-Chan in the role of Maine, who wants to stay in America with her boyfriend Chris, but he is at risk of sending him to Korea after being released from his job by his grandmother (The youngest Jong Jong). When Jeddah Maine comes to visit the states, he and the Angela Angela (Tran) neighbor pretends to be involved in fear of her traditional views. Angela, at the same time, is fighting her own relationship problems with Li (Gladstone), as the couple was suffering from multiple pregnancy loss amid artificial insemination.
While influential topics are woven all the time Wedding banquet -The gap between generations, women’s health and strange identity, to name a few-are also full of vitality and fun, both of which drew a executioner.

“I am of this type of type Oscar candidate38, tell we In La Premiere. “With what is said, with Wedding banquetAnyone who knows me and loves and watches it says this is the most liquid role I have taken so far. It seems like a locking with me, and watching me. I agree. In many ways this comedy, this world, this loving and fun story feels very close to some origin. “
Another tie for Gladstone was the opportunity for the “Family Name” championship, who remembered her mother with the son who was not born, due to abortion before pregnancy with Gladstone.
“It looks ridiculous. [And I was like]”God, Andrew, do not tell Boen this. He is very heavy. A lot of pressure. But my mother lost a child before she was pregnant with me and she knows that she will become a boy.” we. “His name was in August. So we grew up, I grew up with this knowledge who was this boy, and if he was here … I think the overlap, the timing did not work. So I felt that his presence was growing, and how I could get to know that, and how it was useful to be good.”
Gladston said that she and her mother were watching Satardai Knight Life when a drawing with Yang came on the screen and the mother of Gladston immediately felt to contact him. “It’s like,” Gladston recalls, “this is my son. There. ”So I wanted to give my mother a gift from her children, her ground baby, and her star, the star on the screen together.
As for a liter – from Output As queer in November 2024 – gravity Wedding banquet It was simple.
She told us: “I was very excited about the novel of a strange story with a group of strange people.” “And I think the film is doing a good job shed light on such a large number of strange experiences. This was the thing that I was really excited.”
Wedding banquet In theaters now.
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