This article contains spoilers for “Shortcomings.” Randall Park says he never thought of himself as a leader before he directed his debut feature film, “Shortcomings,” out Friday via Sony Pictures …
says he never thought of himself as a leader before he directed his debut feature film, “Shortcomings,” out Friday via Sony Pictures Classics.
“Around the time when I read the book, it really made me think of some of my friends — the way in which he saw the world, the entitlement. But also he’s a really good friend. He’s this complicated mix of things,” Park says. Well, for one, they’re incredible. So to have the two of them open our movie was just like something that was really special to me. They’re beloved, and I didn’t want anybody to feel like that we were taking shots at “Crazy Rich Asians.” To have Ronny there, who was also in “Crazy Rich Asians,” it was nice, because he understood what we were what we were going for.
Your movie is coming out at a historic moment in Hollywood history. What are some ways that you hope the industry will change as a result of the strikes? The big fight scene in the apartment [in “Shortcomings”] — a huge inspiration for that scene was the big argument scene in “Marriage Story.” There was a lot of inspiration from Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig and her work, but as far as “Barbie,” I don’t know. I don’t know if I would ever tackle a movie that big. For now I feel very comfortable in the very intimate spaces of people just walking and talking and hanging out in diners. To me, that’s my pocket.
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