Wong, meanwhile, is half-Vietnamese, half-Chinese and went to private school in the affluent Pacific Heights neighborhood of San Francisco. In the film, she plays a celebrity chef whose immigrant Vietnamese parents run a convenience store. He’s cool, he’s a friend, he’s grounded. It feels real.”In “Always Be My Maybe,” the predictable onscreen Asian-American parent-child dynamics — East vs. West, tradition vs. assimilation, pride vs. shame — are inverted. “It was very important to get those details right,” Khan said, “especially in the beginning with the childhood stuff.

Source: New York Times May 28, 2019 07:52 UTC