The Shanghai-born star is in film-maker Sean Wang's movie, which won the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival.
LOS ANGELES – Shanghai-born actress and director Joan Chen is earning critical acclaim for her role as an immigrant mother in Didi, a coming-of-age comedy drama.
A semi-autobiographical story written and directed by Oscar-nominated film-maker Sean Wang, Didi won the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival in January. It is also one of 2024’s top-rated titles on review aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes, where it has a 100 per cent audience score and a 95 per cent critics’ score.
“When we first met, I felt like I could treat him like one of my kids,” says the 63-year-old star. She has two daughters aged 22 and 25 with husband Peter Hui, a 67-year-old Chinese-American cardiologist. “The chemistry you see on screen, even if you tried for a whole year to cultivate it, it’s either there or not there,” says Chen who, at 17, won the Hundred Flowers Award – China’s Oscar equivalent – for Best Actress for the drama Little Flower .Chen was so moved by an emotional scene between mother and son in Didi, she teared up while filming.“Often, feelings would pour out of me because I would want to say things to my children, and I probably got too emotional.
But the actress admits she had been worried about one aspect of the production, which is the first feature-length film directed by Wang.
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