For those SFIAFF-goers that were looking to catch a glimpse of John Cho but were unable to snag tickets to Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay or West 32nd (both sold out), Hyphen has you covered.
We sat down with the actor at last month’s WonderCon comic book/film expo where he was promoting the Harold and Kumar sequel with writer/directors Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg.
On the highly anticipated return of Harold and Kumar:
“I feel like it’s the same personality for the second movie. We just ramped up the stakes and made bigger explosions basically. I think we’ve topped ourselves even in the social and political jokes department and I’m happy with it. Very, very happy.”
On his West 32nd experience:
“I’ve been getting a lot of what I like to call Koreatown scripts over the years from Asian American writers who wanted to do a story in Koreatown, and I’ve never quite seen it work. This is the first time I’ve picked one up and said, “This is interesting” and really it was because the script wasn’t about Koreatown. It just took place in Koreatown and was about other things. What I find very interesting about this character that I played was that he was an Asian American that was starting to fetishize being Asian American, which I think is an interesting thing, and I’ve seen it happen.”
Read the full interview in Hyphen’s forthcoming April issue.
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Posted by sylvie at March 14, 2008 12:58 AM
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