Lucy Liu

And I can understand why as we talk more about it.

But what was it about that script that made you say, I can't really look away from this.

I have to take this on.

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 personally.

behind closed doors and I know 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.

You mentioned an article because I said in the introduction that this is based on a true story.

And the articles you're referring to are the articles after a crime happens.

And this mother makes this decision that...

really is such a hard one without giving it away.

How did you find a way to humanize her after reading about the choices that she made in the end as she faces terminal cancer and she also sees that her son is very disturbed?

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.

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