“I'm excited to discover what makes me tick enough to make my next movie,” he tells Bazaar.
Jon M. Chu might have never made his first movie if it weren’t for his mom. Five years after graduating from the USC School of Cinematic Arts—where he racked up prestigious film honors that recognized his short film work like the Jack Nicholson Award and the Princess Grace Award, and where he was famously discovered by Steven Spielberg—the chance to direct his very own film finally arrived. The opportunity was for a Step Up sequel, something initially presented to him as a direct-to-DVD movie.
Crazy Rich Asians made history as the first major Hollywood production with an all-Asian cast since 1993’s The Joy Luck Club, and—besides being a critically acclaimed and box office success that breathed new life into the flagging rom-com genre—it also reoriented how he carried the weight of responsibility as a director. “You can’t close your eyes after a moment like that,” he says.
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