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‘Dìdi’ Star Joan Chen on Reinventing Onscreen Asian Moms: ‘Stereotypes Are Not Innately Evil, but They’re an Incomplete Portrayal’
‘Dìdi’ Star Joan Chen on reinventing onscreen Asian moms: ‘Stereotypes are not innately evil, but they are an incomplete portrayal.’
Engulfed by hormones and vulnerable to the pressures (social and otherwise) of adolescence, Chris is frequently a bit of a jerk; but never does his behavior stand in more stark relief from the kindness and understanding that he needs to navigate this challenging time in his life than when interacting with his compassionate, indefatigably patient mother Chungsing, played by Joan Chen. Also the executive producer of “Dìdi,” Chen explains that she believed in Wang’s film from the first time she read its script, which draws authentically — if not always flatteringly — from his own experiences. Chen particularly loved the dimensionality that Wang gave to Chungsing, in that she is the family’s long-suffering matriarch, especially in the frequent absence of her husband and Chris’ father, but she’s also a person with her own aspirations — specifically, to be a painter.
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