And her soul and her heart. And her emotions. And talking through and building this character together. So I think that Nora is genuinely somewhere between part of me in our collaboration. I think she's the center of our collaboration. And she's not all Greta Lee, but also she's not all Celine Song.
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We’d read it out loud and then talk about it. So when I’m talking to my DP or production designer and we have to change the way we’re making a scene, we could always navigate it because they understood what we needed to achieve. It wasn’t just, “Greta has our job and we have our job.” It was, “We know what Greta has to accomplish in this scene because we know how this part of the story fits into the whole script.” We were all partners in how we were going to face the day.
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Cinematographer: Peter Wunstorf
Cinematographer
Producer: Stephen Hegyes, Rose Waddell
Producer
Double Happiness director Mina Shum looks back at what has — and hasn't — changed in this extended interview from The Filmmakers.7 years agoDuration 10:31Double Happiness director Mina Shum looks back at what has — and hasn't — changed in this extended interview from The Filmmakers.7 years agoArtsShare5:26PlayMute5:4610:31Toggle fullscreenShareLinkFacebookTwitterEmailEmbedDouble Happiness director
Regarding Sandra Oh's casting in Double Happiness, although Sandra wasn't Cantonese, her upbringing in an Asian family with similar values helped her fit into the role naturally. The director provided some Chinese lessons and felt that Sandra inherently understood the character due to her background.
Double Happiness director
When creating stories, she focuses on the hero, believing that heroes can come from any background, not limited by Hollywood's traditional definitions.
Double Happiness
8:25 How Mina persuaded Sandra to play Jade. Sandra thought she was not a good fit in the beginning.
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7:00 Mina met Sandra in 1993. During During the shoot of "The Diary of Evelyn Lau," Mina asked Sandra to read and audition for Jade.
Press Kit
She tells the story of how her mom comes in and talks in the film. What makes the film documentary. Page 9.
Press Kit
She works with Jim Fealy who has worked on commercials as well as the feature "The Doom Generation." She also mentions that Jim Fealy pretended to be her grandfather lurking in the palms with a new camera and a brand new wife when shooting one scene for the film. Page 8
Producers: Linda Barry, Eleanor Nakama-Mitsunaga, Kayo Hatta
Producer
Shaping is a closed-door, creative process. You might be alone sketching on paper or in front of a whiteboard with a close collaborator. There'll be rough diagrams in front of you that nobody outside the room would be able to interpret. When working with a collaborator, you move fast, speak frankly and jump from one promising position to another. It's that kind of private, rough, early work.
Matthew S. MacLennan
I am the author of this paragraph. I am also one of the scientists doing the metabolomic studies. I am in collaboration with many others in this project.