Celeste Ng (pronounced_ing) reveals how she and liztigelaar underscored the '90s-set adaptation's relevance: 'We're realizing how badly we need to have conversations about race and class.'
' review calling it "an utterly engrossing, often heartbreaking, deeply empathetic experience." The story follows the collision between two families and the mothers who lead them: Elena Richardson, the matriarch of a seemingly perfect suburban family, and Mia Warren, a single mother and artist who raises her daughter wherever her art happens to take her.
Ng, who is Chinese American, grew up in Pittsburgh and Shaker Heights, Ohio — areas with little Asian representation — and says her story comes from a personal place. "I've felt like I'm an outsider for most of my life, so I think a lot about that power imbalance, what it means to feel like you aren't being seen or heard or that people see you differently than you know yourself to be," she says.
Ng continued to write the book as though the Warrens were working-class white characters. But when the idea of casting Washington came up, Ng was thrilled. "I loved that because to me it said that [producer and star Reese Witherspoon and Hello Sunshine's Lauren Neustadter] were looking at the book in the way that I wanted it to be looked at: They were thinking about how race and class connect, they were leaning into having those discussions," Ng says.
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