How "Freak Friday" corrects Asian stereotypes in "Freak Friday"

Disney is about to be behind the Asian member "Freakier Friday" behind the sequel to the 2003 comedy "Freakier Friday", he agreed to the original film's choice of "hurt" with its Asian character. But in the new movie released in August, they try to "get it right."

In the 2003 film, Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan play a mother and daughter who keeps on the rise in opposition. As they argue loudly at a Chinese restaurant, owner Pei-pei (Rosalind Chao) tells her mother (Lucille Soong) to stay away from it, but Soong's character stepped in, offering a destiny cooking from Tess (Curtis) and Anna (Lohan) (Lohan) (Lohan). "It's not a good time," Anna said. To shut up, Tess and Anna picked up the cookies that were magical, causing them to switch bodies until they could better understand each other.

Director Nisha Ganatra told Entertainment Weekly, “There are some stereotypes that are harmful.” “I remember watching it and feeling torn apart, mainly about Asian representatives, and also the soundtrack used. When I first met with producers, it was something I immediately asked. I had a moment of speech, like “Asian representatives in question!” ”!”

Ganatra believes that she and her team “owed the audience to take the right viewer”, so she teamed up with screenwriter Jordan Weiss to add “the weird Friday Friday” to “not betray the movie’s hourly moments, but happy with the people who found harmful time in the last one.”

Chao and Soong, for example, both return to the sequel to “Some Very Fun Moments,” but this time they aren’t involved in the demolition sequel.

"It was a different period, not intentionally (in the 2003 film), but it was the real thing.

Manny Jacinto said he was "concerned" about "Freakier Friday" before officially joining Anna's fiancé Eric, but was happy with how Ganatra handled Asian representatives in the new film.

“When I was thinking about jumping on the boat, I remember watching the first weird Friday, like, ‘It’s not so good for different characters’ ages.’ I know Nisha talks to other people in our circle, and I know we have a captain who is very aware of these prototypes, or those questions raised in the first one. “I don’t know if it’s the same, or the same heart and charm if it’s another director. She remains rooted and authentic, but is also fascinating and fun. It was a good match and she walked very well. ”