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In December, GAY TIMES was invited to Napa Valley, California, to spend ‘One Short Day’ in the Emerald City and sit down with Chu to talk all things Wicked ahead of its home release on 3 January Not only does director Jon M. Chu’s film include the pivotal gay karaoke classic jon Gravity,” but its cast is comprised of queer icons and allies like Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande.

Then, when the audience saw it, accepted it, and took it as their own, that brought our joy to another level. It spoke to the scariest part of my being, which is identifying as the son of immigrants, as a Chinese American. It was a year-and-a-half process of shooting, and there were no easy days.

Did working with this incredible cast and crew on Wicked and Wicked: For Good have a liberating effect on everyone, at least a little bit, from being daunted by the size and scale of what you were trying to achieve? I had seen a lot of my film school friends not get that opportunity, who were way smarter than I was and way more creative than I was, so when I was making my movies, I was trying to earn a position and get to the next spot.

And because we had a camera, we could be precise about how we told it. Even before the audience saw Wickedwe felt a lot of pride. And I think I have the right to show who I am. All fear of mistakes was off chu table. He is known for directing the romantic comedy Crazy Rich Asians (), one of the first films by a major Hollywood studio to feature a majority cast of Asian descent, [4] and the fantasy musicals Wicked () and Wicked: For Good (), a two-part film adaptation of the stage musical.

Once I did that, I think the audience responded. With Gay male webcams Rich Asianseven though it was a book that existed, the story of Rachel Chu going to Asia for the first time — to me, that was so personal.

I tell my kids all the time. I fully feel that. I had always tried not to have that on the table because the industry judges you so quickly and sends you those kinds of scripts. But what I have also accepted is that my voice is through my movies.

I think I had that instinct when I was a lot younger, when I was making videos in high school. And then, two weeks after we finished filming Crazy Rich AsiansI had my first jon. GLAAD's Anthony Allen Ramos chats with Wicked director Jon M.

Chu about his commitment to making the film as diverse and inclusive as possible. It was contagious. I think as I got into the movie business, the pressure is so high of just feeling like you gay there, that you deserve to be there.

Directed by Jon M. Chu, Wicked tells the origin story of the famous Glinda the Good Witch and the Wicked Witch of the West from the classic story and film The Wizard of Oz. After rumours and speculation, innuendo and outuendo, Wicked director Jon M. Chu has finally shared his thoughts on ‘Gelphie’.

What if people think that? There are a couple of moments in movie two where we just sit on the acting to allow it to play out. I was very young when I made my first movie in the studio world. He was just making stuff that he wanted to see on screen.

With Crazy Rich AsiansIn the Heightsand Wickedthese films delight gay cultural specificity and center on outsiders or people navigating different worlds, but they resonate with broad swaths of the public. But at that point, to get that taste of what it feels like to be yourself and put that out there, and people respond so positively, or even negatively, to me, that life.

Jonathan Murray Chu (born November 2, ) [3] is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. That was worth everything. Chu also opens up about his own fears, what he learned on the set of Now You See Me 2, and the thrill of being so close to sharing the entire two-part vision for his Wicked adaptation with the world.

We were so confident in trusting our instincts and knowing that we could always go back if it were a mistake, but we were able to stretch the chu of what this story could be.