The stars of the R-rated comedy 'Joy Ride' — including Oscar nominee Stephanie Hsu — comment on the sex-positive raunch fest that puts Asian American leads in the spotlight
First and foremost, it is a body double, she’s amazing, and yes, I was involved in the process of casting her. Ultimately — and this is why I love our movie — it is sex-positive and body-positive, and of course it’s funny but that is also just a piece of anatomy with a wild image on it.
I will say that when I saw the edit [of that scene], I did not feel comfortable. I thought that the way that it was cut made me feel like people were laughing at Kat as opposed to laughing with Kat and the core four. So [the filmmakers] invited me into the editing process. We had five different versions of the moment the tattoo would reveal — it would reveal on different words, it would cut to different audience reactions — and we just sat there and figured it out.
Because it was important to us that it wasn’t just for shock value, that it was also hilarious and surprising and didn’t linger on it so long that it would alienate everybody but would open up more empathy for the friendship and for the character. For the record, I do feel really proud of how that beat now lands. I think it’s super empowering and great for the body double. She’s super awesome and sex-positive and confident, and that’s something I couldn’t do if that image was on my body.
All four characters experience a duality in their identities, in the way they know the world sees them, and how they become empowered to show their true selves. Was that cathartic to explore?It was something we’ve observed other people get the opportunity to do, and I feel like we all had the qualities and experience and minds to do it. But you have muscle memory tolet yourself go there.
You have folks like NBA star Baron Davis filling out the movie around your characters. How did you bring these other players into the bond you created on set?Every single day people would get swallowed into our love. It would be like, “Come to dinner! Are you staying at that hotel? We’re going to go to Sherry’s!”We were just so inclusive and so happy — Asian aunties who host. My mom is always like, “Come, eat, eat, eat!” and we were like that.
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