The first female director of a live-action StarWars story brought her father's love of Hong Kong action to the fight
with the baby. It was kind of an amazing thing because it was like coming back to classic cinema and filmmaking. So there’s definitely a lot of my dad in that episode.”First Woman in Spacemakes her the first woman and the first filmmaker of Asian heritage to direct a live-action“Even when I first got this job, it didn’t even cross my mind. I don’t know what fairyland I was in, to not think this was significant.
“I want it to be about the work. I want to be a good director, not a good female director, not a good Asian director. But by the same token, obviously, my career path and the representation… it is important. It is meaningful. I want to see more women directors and I want to see more directors of color.”can be a surreal experience.
The little green star, known for now as Baby Yoda, was just as enchanting in real life as it is on screen. “I worked with the puppeteers and the visual effects [artists], and just worked with it like it was an actor. It would just be about emotion. I’m not going to try to tell them technically how to do it. But we would talk through it.”
She wasn’t the only one to talk to Baby Yoda as if it was real. For more from Deborah Chow, subscribe toFrom the awards race to the box office, with everything in between: get the entertainment industry's must-read newsletter.
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