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Joan Chen Runs Away With The Wedding Banquet


She ran away with the Sundance Q&A, too.

The Wedding Banquet tells the story of two couples: Angela (Kelly Marie Tran) and Lee (Lily Gladstone), and Chris (Bowen Yang) and Min (Han Gi-chan, in his first English-language role). It ought to work, probably, definitely, so long as Min’s family — namely his scary grandmother (played by Minari Oscar winner Youn Yuh-jung) — doesn’t ask too many questions. When she spoke about her experience with the movie, she immediately launched into a rant about how the young cast absconded off to “eat gummies and giggle.” Despite Bowen Yang’s protests that they were merely Haribos as opposed to something more potent, Chen shook her head.

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