Name: How ‘The Farewell’ Makes Exercise Fun and Bittersweet | Anatomy of a Scene
Uploaded: 2020-03-25T08:58:41.000Z
Duration: 2 min 7 s
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I'm Lulu Wang, and I'm the writer and director

This is a scene between Billi and Nai Nai, her grandma.

It's the morning after Billi has arrived in China,

It's played by Nora Lum, aka Awkwafina, and Zhao

because I wasn't sure of the chemistry between the two

And we just let the actors move freely around the frame.

But I knew that I wasn't going to be able to edit the scene.

because it's the first scene where Billi and Nai

And we wanted it to be a static shot because we wanted

the audience to feel the natural chemistry

And she would just be off camera the whole time.

So this exercise is something that my own grandmother did.

to do the exercise, because it's not something that she

It takes a lot of core strength to really get

So it took a lot of practice, and she was pretty winded

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How ‘The Farewell’ Makes Exercise Fun and Bittersweet | Anatomy of a Scene

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