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Lee Isaac Chung: Hello. I'm Isaac Chung, the writer-director of Minari. Now Isaac, we've actually never met.
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This is our first time meeting each other, virtually or in real life. Isaac: First time, yeah. I read your book when it first came out and honestly, I love it. I love that book.
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I was so excited to see that we were going to do something together. Viet: Yeah, me too. I mean, we're going to get into all this, and I love Minari Stories We Tell. But I just want to find out, where are you calling from? Isaac: I'm in South Pasadena, California. Viet: Oh my gosh. I'm in Pasadena. I didn't realize we were neighbors. Isaac: We should be together, Viet, to do this. Viet: How long have you been in South Pasadena?
Isaac: I guess I've been here since How about yourself? Viet: It's a really exciting neighborhood, and then I went to Pasadena to look at a place. And I thought, "This place is so nice and so quiet, and there's no helicopters hovering overhead, and people are walking their dogs on the street. And then inI got old and I W like, "Oh, Pasadena is now Stories We Tell right place for me.
And we saw how narrow the roads were there and we just thought, "Okay, we're going to get stressed out over here.
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We went completely for the easiest place to live, and that's South Pasadena. Viet: Yeah. I mean Silver Lake feels like Williamsburg. And I think that was actually the major reason why I moved to Pasadena, because Silver Lake with kids was just a little bit too much Stories We Tell me. And I was really struck—obviously we'll talk about Minari and the family dimensions there—but I was also really struck in some of your interviews when you talk about yourself, Trll, your own childhood, and then becoming a father, it really resonated with me, because I've gone through some of those same feelings.
I had the chance to see myself by Stories We Tell at my own children—my oldest son as he reached my age at four years old, for example, when some things happened to me coming to the United States. And then I saw my parents as well, because I never thought about my check this out in that Stoires. In your interviews, you were also talking about part of the challenge of doing Minari was also to see yourself through your children's eyes, or see your children and see yourself, and then also to see your parents in a new way too. Isaac: It kind of untethers the perspective a bit, is the way I felt.
I remember as soon as my daughter was born at the hospital, and I saw her on the weight measuring thing, they kind of plop her on Stories We Tell felt like a part of my body, basically, that's so integral to my survival was just placed right outside of myself. It kind of untethered my feeling of who I am as a person, it expanded it somehow, it took me out of myself somehow, which I needed. I was way too in my own head, in my own space, before that. I think I share that in common with you as well.
I mean, there's something, to me anyway, really self-centered about being a writer.]
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