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‘Joy Ride’: Adele Lim on Her SXSW Directorial Debut and Telling a Story About Messy, Thirsty Women ‘On Our Terms’

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Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor When Teresa Hsiao (“Family Guy”), Cherry Chevapravatdumrong (“Family Guy”) and Adele Lim (“Crazy Rich Asians”) set out to write “Joy Ride,” the aim was to develop a story that they wished they could have had seen in their twenties. “Joy Ride” sees Lim transition from writer to director in this “Girls Trip” meets “The Hangover” ride of a film where Stephanie Hsu, Sherry Cola, and Sabrina Wu follow Ashley Park’s Audrey across the world on a business trip to Asia.

Things go awry when she has to track down her birth mother to close a huge business deal. The writers wanted a film that would show young Asian women having fun and being messy, smashing past narratives of Asian women as exotic fetishes.

This was a story they wanted to tell on their terms. Says Lim, “It’s a crazy bananas movie and you don’t know how it’s going to be taken across the board.

Of course, you want to hit it out of the park, but you also want to make sure the heart is true.” As the film premieres at SXSW, Lim sat down with Variety to discuss writing the script, working with Seth Rogen’s Point Grey, her casting process and stepping behind the camera to lens her directorial debut.

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