Lucy Liu

He's also not really taking his medication.

He's throwing it away.

He's starting to become more paranoid.

And his way of trying to protect her is really going off in a very different direction.

He's becoming paranoid, and she's also becoming very paranoid.

And so the two of them are trying to protect each other, but they're not really on the same wavelength.

Mm-hmm.

You are speaking Mandarin, Chinese.

You spoke Mandarin until you were five years old, but you had a coach work with you in this film.

Can you tell me a little bit about that experience as you were trying to really master the language and the importance for you to really get there?

that tonal quality and the exactness of it.

Yes, when I was living at home, we only spoke Chinese.

So when I went to public school, I was under the age of five and really got dropped into the immersion of public school and just trying to understand what was going on.

And it was also very insular in our home.

So we never really...

did anything except for maybe hang out in the alleyway in Queens and played or was just at home really at that age.

But I really didn't have a grasp of, I guess, the bigger picture of what was happening and how everything was happening.

And so when this project came up, it was really vital to make this authenticity sing.

And I worked with this wonderful coach, Doug Onoroff, who's just...

just a master at all different kinds of languages and he really understood the nuance and we went into the dialogue and we dissected the language and made sure that it was conversational when it was in Chinese and also made the English