More from Rebecca Sun
“Write for Your Communities, Don’t Write for the White Man”: Inside the Sundance Native Lab
Hollywood is finally paying attention to Indigenous creatives. The prestigious filmmaking program — through which several of the biggest names have passed — is working to make sure the moment lasts.
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‘Squid Game’ Returns: Inside Netflix’s Darker, Terrifyingly Relevant Season 2
Creator Hwang Dong-hyuk opens up about this season’s new games, new cast and his dystopic vision that now feels frighteningly close to home: “I wanted to pose the question: Is the majority always right?”
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‘Twisters’ Director Lee Isaac Chung Wants Nature to Put Us in Our Place
"I would love to see more stories … to show how small we are in comparison to the nature around us," says the Oscar nominee, who grew up in Oklahoma's tornado belt.
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‘Expats’ Creator Lulu Wang on Giving Background Players Main Character Energy
The writer-director breaks down the episode that centers on the secrets, struggles and joys of the foreign domestic underclass: “Who has the privilege not to be political?”
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Industry Moms are Fed Up and Now Fired Up About Showing Gun Safety Onscreen
#FiredUp, a movement led by producers Jen Gorton, Stacy Keppler Calabrese and Jessica Kantor, has partnered with Brady United Against Gun Violence to make a simple request of their storytelling colleagues.
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‘Shogun’ Leads Gold List for Asian Pacific Television Honorees
The annual FYC list from Gold House is expanding to the television awards season for the first time.
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Michelle Obama on the First Family’s Hollywood Pivot: “You’ve Got to Meet People Where They Are”
Agent Maha Dakhil provided opening remarks for the 2024 CAA Amplify summit, whose speakers also included Padma Lakshmi and Ricky Martin.
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Robert Downey Jr. Says His ‘Sympathizer’ Hair and Makeup Was a “Very Surreal Experience”
The star of HBO’s limited series has viewers seeing quintuple with his multiple characters and says, “Working with director Park Chan-wook was hands-on in a way you don’t get with CGI.”
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Amazon MGM Studios Global DEIA Head Latasha Gillespie Exits, Replaced by Amanda Baker-Lane
Baker-Lane was previously head of DEIA product and strategy at the company.
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Why Learning to Be Left-Handed Created Tension for ‘Expats’ Star
Ji-young Yoo opens up about why she chose a Korean stage name and prepping for her part opposite Nicole Kidman in the adapted limited series.
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New Event Series Hwayo Honors Aims to Celebrate Asian Creative Excellence (Exclusive)
An inaugural dinner was held May 29 in Los Angeles featuring ‘Beef’ star and painter Joseph Lee, with a follow-up in New York last Friday to toast filmmaker Elizabeth Ai.
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Lilly Wachowski’s Anarchists United Foundation Boards Circle Management’s Writers Discovery Fellowship as Partner (Exclusive)
The TV writing program was launched in 2020 by the management-production company formerly known as Circle of Confusion.
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