Youn Yuh-jung on How LGBTQ+ Comedy ‘The Wedding Banquet’ Mirrors Her Real Life

The words “Quir” and “comedy” do not immediately mind when the audience thinks of Yun Yu Yah of war films.

The latest project of the Oscar winner, Wedding banquet (The same name is re -imagined by the film in 1993) They are both things.

Andrew Ahn’s directed film is the centers around two gay joints-chorus (Boone Yang) and Man (Han G-Chen) and Angela (Kelly Mary Trans) and Lee (Lily Gladstone)-who face challenges that can pull their relationships.

Angela and Lee have been unfortunate for their IVF treatment and they cannot afford to pay another period. The mind is closed and his student visa is coming to an end soon. When his commitment-fobic boyfriend Chris rejects his suggestion, Mann offers Angela instead: Green card wedding in exchange for Li’s IVF financing.

To gain access to the wealth of their family, Man and Angela need to persuade their grandmother to be in love. Amazing wedding equipment looks through the chair, but insists on holding a traditional wedding banquet, so the Korean media – and the grandparents abroad – will believe that their marriage is real.

“I thought I was very serious during the scenes,” Yun told people smiling. “I was playing my role very seriously.”

One of the Wedding banquet The most powerful scenes are when Jayng and Man have an honest, one -on -one conversation about their sexuality. This is an experience that Yun says he was with his son.

He explained, “The story of my personal life is a lot in this movie.” Korea is a very conservative country. People never come to gay, publicly or parents. But my first son (a) was a gay man, so I shared my experience in the movie with myself and my grandchildren. ”

“So we share our personal story with Andrew,” he said about Ahn, which also calls the screenplay. “This is the fact, because between my son and (I) in this movie, in fact.”

Despite her star power, Yun is not sure – or even if – Wedding banquet It will be received in his native country.

“I hope Korea will open its mind or wake up,” he said.

“I hope this movie will be able to show,” John Chen, who played the role of Gesila’s mother, played the role.

“I don’t know,” Jon replied. “You still don’t know.”

Ahn told people how the current social environment of the United States and abroad affected the direction of the film.

“I think, it seems only a kind of responsibility to show the way towards hope,” said Ahn, who identified the LGBT Q+. “I wanted to be there, because I think the world is so dark and it’s really a difficult place, and I didn’t feel like beating while someone was underneath.”

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He added, “And so for me, this is my philosophy in filmmaking, and this is something I really adopted from the original movie, which is a message of hope and possibility.” “I wanted to reveal my flexibility and hope people to pass through some of these difficult times,”

Wedding banquet Friday, April 18 opens to cinemas houses, with tickets available Here.