![]() ![]() The budget required that Lim shoot the Chinese road trip of Joy Ride in Vancouver. We’ve seen so much penis! I don’t know how you top Ken Jeong in The Hangover. ![]() That made us crack up, so we gave the character one and kept expecting somebody to tell us, “Fuck, no!” But when you work with Seth Rogen’s company, their reaction is, “Fuck, yes!”įor the past decade plus, nudity in comedy has been dominated by the unexpected penis reveal. When we were breaking story, the character of Kat was inspired by a friend of ours - now the most prim, pearl-clutching woman but a full-on freak in college. You can’t really do this now, but I remember once googling “genital tattoos and the people who get them” in a writers room. It was always navigating between standing up for what you believed and survival.Ĭan you tell me about the conversations or hoops that got you to show full-frontal female nudity in a feature comedy? I came up at a time when if you shut people down, you’d be booted so quickly. What? No! This was years ago, before Crazy Rich. I was like, “Really, you found a way to cram all those stereotypes into one sentence? That’s impressive, man.” That was verbatim, word for word, me in a room with a producer on a project. In terms of depictions, did a producer actually tell you once, “I look at you and think, ‘Dragon lady with a nail salon who might be human trafficking?'” You’re giving in to terrorists when you do that. But the reaction from the community has been, “OK, let’s disavow our sexuality altogether” - which is garbage, because that’s part of us. ![]() We were like the first subsect on Pornhub. Asian women onscreen, they think of you as something exotic. It wasn’t something I necessarily set out to do early in my career, but as an Asian woman in this space, I was very aware of how I was perceived. Was there a touchstone, growing up, where you thought, “I want my version of that”?Īny underrepresented group, there’s certain ways you get depicted. What would make us crack up?Īsian women are rarely shown in this light. So, for shits and giggles, we met up every Thursday to talk about the story we wish we had in our 20s. Being on Raya, all I wanted was a palate cleanser. My friends and co-writers on this, Cherry Chevapravatdumrong and Teresa Hsiao, we hang out all the time and it’s just dick jokes. I’d been on Raya, a dream come true, but it was two years of writing for family, four quadrants, the whole thing. What was your relationship with raunch comedy going into this? How 'Nimona' Explores the Model Minority Stereotype Through Its Queer API Love Storyĭuring a wide-ranging discussion, Lim talks full-frontal nudity, the tightrope of promoting a film during a strike and what she learned from going public with that lowball offer. ![]()
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