Lucy Liu

When we start the movie, you know, you see the love between these two, a parent and a child, right?

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

Because she lost her husband several years before.

That's correct.

I want to slow down a little bit because when you talk about language, there are two languages here we're talking about.

We're talking about the literal language.

She's an immigrant and

She speaks Mandarin Chinese, and she's here in the United States as an immigrant.

So there's that cultural thing as well.

There's that cultural language in addition to the literal language that she's isolated.

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 isolated.

as open, oftentimes, to mental health services, like therapists.

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

Is there a suspicion?

Even her own friend says,

in the movie says, when Irene, who's the character I play, says he's getting better, he seems to be getting better in therapy, her own friend says, you sound like a foreigner.

So there is that, when I mentioned sequestering earlier, it's because there's really, even with a dear friend,

There's that feeling of, I guess, the stigma of, well, that's not how you do it.

We've got herbal medicine.