‘Shortcomings’ Director Randall Park & Justin Min, Sherry Cola, & Ally Maki on Telling a New Asian American Story | Sundance 2023

Adapted from the graphic novel of the same name, Shortcomings marks Ant-Man and Always Be My Maybe actor Randall Park’s feature directorial debut at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Directed off a script penned by the original story’s author, Adrian Tomine, Shortcomings is a comedy that follows Ben Tanaka , through the mire of modern dating soon after a split with his longtime girlfriend, Miko .

RANDALL PARK: I've been bad at it, but what I usually say is it's about three Bay Area urbanites who are making a lot of mistakes in life, but trying their best. That's what I usually say, It's kind of vague.SHERRY COLA: A key phrase for me is “slice of life.” It’s people having conversations, it's very raw and perfect. Those are some keywords without spoilers.

COLA: Yeah, I think the themes of this film [are] like people growing apart, people just sabotaging, almost, people who are just so flawed. And it's because of the mainstream hits that have afforded us this kind of movie, you know? It could not be more simple, could not be more just people talking, could not be more just about relationships.

MAKI: You just blew us away on set because it's like you knew exactly what you wanted, but then somehow you let us play effortlessly. So it made it feel like it was our own, but then you always knew exactly what your vision was, and never strayed from that, and that was very impressive. PARK: Yeah, we have incredible actors. Jacob Batalon, Scott Seiss, who are employed by Justin's character, Ben, at this movie theater. For me, it was all about what's real, what you'd expect to happen in these situations. Folks who work in a movie theater are likely passionate about movies themselves, as Ben is. They have their thoughts on movies, and there's some meta stuff going on there.

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