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‘The Wedding Banquet’ Star Lily Gladstone Changed Her Character Name to Honor Indigenous People — and Nodded to Ang Lee in the Process
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Don’t call it a remake, it’s a reimagining. In the case of Andrew Ahn’s take on Ang Lee’s 1993 romantic comedy “The Wedding Banquet,” that couldn’t be more true. For the “Driveways” filmmaker’s latest film, which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival before its upcoming spring release, reimagining, freshening up, and contemporizing the story of a young gay Taiwanese immigrant who lies to his parents about his romantic status and ends up falling into a green card marriage to a woman, was top of mind.

Ahn’s take on the film has some canny tweaks: Our star (Han Gi-chan) and his character are now Korean, while his eventual fake wife Angela (Kelly Marie Tran) is already in her own same-sex relationship with Lee (Lily Gladstone). There are plenty more updates to the story, but the personal touches the cast and crew brought to it seem particularly special.
See full article at Indiewire
  • 2/3/2025
  • by Kate Erbland
  • Indiewire

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