Lucy Liu

I think that this story is so devastating, and I also realize that there's nothing like this in our lexicon.

We don't have a story about a family, an immigrant family, struggling with cancer or even mental health.

And I wanted to highlight the love in this family.

I think sometimes the title of the article or things like that is very clickbait and not a way to humanize this woman and her son and to really talk about what happened behind closed doors.

And I know that.

For myself, there's a lot of cultural stigma and there's a lot of fear about being seen in a true light, thinking that it would be judged or I guess you'll be shunned from the community.

And I think that there's something about exposing that in a positive way that might help spark conversation for not just the AANHPI community, but for so many other cultures.

Yeah.

I think understanding that she had a fragmentation in the language.

I think when she was home and she was speaking Mandarin fluently with her

Son, you can see that there was nuance and poetry and love and in humor.

And when she was outside in the world, there's a vulnerability that she has.

And I think that was a really important part of understanding how she was in many ways marginalized and also that she did not have an advocate.

I think the one thing that we see is when we start the movie, you know, you see the love between these two, a parent and a child.

But also we have to recognize that she's coming from a place of grief and of loss.

She's very much isolated, but she also sequesters herself as well.

And I think that is because there's a lot of judgment within the community, and I think that they are not –

as open oftentimes to mental health services, like therapists.

And I mean, the extreme of that is Western medicine, taking SSRIs or whatever it is.

Is there a suspicion?