"I never had the kind of rebellion that Chris the character had in ‘Dìdi,'" shares Joan Chen on how her adolescent years differed significantly from those depicted in the Sean Wang film. Unlike the ...

Focus Features’ Dìdi is now playing in theaters and is continuing its nationwide expansion this week. ComingSoon Editor-in-Chief Tyler Treese spoke to Dìdi director Sean Wang, plus stars Izaac Wang ...

Chen tells IndieWire about tapping into her own experiences as an immigrant parent — "we hurt our children unintentionally" — and being "airlifted" into a surprise directing job on 2000's "Autumn in ...

For Joan Chen playing a doting but slightly disregarded Taiwanese immigrant mother in Sean Wang‘s Dìdi was a healing experience. Not only could she connect with the struggles that her character ...

LOS ANGELES, April 17 (UPI) --Youn Yuh-jung and Joan Chen say their characters in The Wedding Banquet, in theaters Friday, are open to a transition from traditional Asian cultures to more modern ideas ...

(L to R) Izaac Wang as "Chris" and Mahaela Park as "Madi" in writer/director Sean Wang's DÌDI, a Focus Features release. Credit: Courtesy of Focus Features / Talking ...

Raffy is a Los Angeles-based writer, editor, video creator, and critic.

It’s been 33 years since Joan Chen was turned into a doorknob. In 1991, having asked David Lynch to write her out of his surrealist soap opera Twin Peaks, the actor found her character, factory owner ...