“It really left an impression on me that you could choose a prism with which to see everything in the world, and so that’s what I’m doing in this phase of my writing is really exploring things through sexual desires, needs, fulfillment.”Įmmy Predictions: Lead Actress in a Limited Series or TV Movie – Could Kate Winslet ('Mare of Easttown') Challenge Mbedu or Taylor-Joy?Įmmy Predictions: Lead Actress in a Comedy Series – Jean Smart Could Make Last-Minute Splash for 'Hacks'Įmmy Predictions: Lead Actress in a Drama Series – Can Mj Rodriguez Break Into the Lineup for the Final Season of 'Pose'? It’s an approach he’s been using for projects he currently has in the works, including a stoner noir show for Amazon and “Tuna Melt,” which he says “is like a Hong Kong gangster film dropped in Mid-City” Los Angeles.
My parents are really good people.”ĭespite the story’s heavy themes, Huang was more interested in exploring Boogie’s relationship with intimacy given that there are already enough dark, rough, coming-of-age movies (think “Kids,” “Trainspotting,” “Better Luck Tomorrow”). “They see their mistakes and they see what bothered me, but at the end of the day they know I know that they love me, and that’s all they care about. There should be, but there wasn’t,” Huang says. “When your parents are so focused on surviving and providing and figuring out this country they came to that makes no sense to them, it’s like, there’s no time for this. He says his parents are proud of the movie, but that “it wasn’t like a celebration.” Like Boogie, Huang “grew up in a family with a lot of violence.” Though “Boogie” is set in the present, Huang describes it as being a “snapshot of what it was like as an ’80s baby, being Asian, growing up in America.” It pulled from his own family’s story, with his mom even featured in the film as a fortune teller. “I’m happy that I was able to, in that way, make his family proud and make his friends proud and I think I made him proud. “It’s still really, really painful to think about,” Huang says. He played Boogie’s basketball nemesis, Monk. What’s more, the movie is the first and final acting performance of the late Brooklyn drill rapper Pop Smoke, who was murdered in February 2020 at just 20 years old during a home invasion. But long before Huang ever opened his now-closed Manhattan bun shop BaoHaus - or earned a law degree and had a stint in a corporate firm - he studied English and film at Rollins College in Orlando, Fla.Ī rare coming-of-age film about an Asian American, “Boogie” is a genre standout from the get-go. He first hit Hollywood when his memoirs were adapted into ABC’s “Fresh Off the Boat.” Also a restaurateur, he combined his chef expertise with his entertainment prowess and hosted the Cooking Channel’s “Cheap Bites,” MTV’s “Snack Off” and Viceland’s “Fresh Off the Boat,” which evolved in “Huang’s World,” a docuseries where Huang traveled the globe to explore identity through food. Huang’s foray into film has been a long time coming. “From ‘Fresh Off the Boat’ to ‘Boogie,’ Huang is deepening our understanding of the Asian American experience by turning the often-thorny elements of his own journey as a person of color in America into relatable, universally appealing entertainment.” “ Eddie Huang is an inspirational leader because he’s achieved that miraculous feat of combining essential truths with engaging storytelling,” said Steven Gaydos, Variety‘s executive VP of content.
The film was released via Focus Features in March. He struggles with on-court rivals, his identity as a Chinese American and the pressure from his parents to earn a full-ride scholarship to an elite university, all the while navigating his first experience with love. “Boogie” is the coming-of-age story of Alfred “Boogie” Chin (Taylor Takahashi), a teenage basketball phenom in Queens, New York, with ambitions to make it to the NBA. 'Fresh Off the Boat' Author Eddie Huang Directing Coming-of-Age Story 'Boogie' 'Boogie' Review: An Uneven Chinese American Basketball Drama “And I’m like, well, let me present you with a quite unlikable Asian character and see if you love him in the same way.”Įddie Huang to Receive Inaugural Variety Voice of Inspiration Award “It was always white people in school that were like, ‘Oh, I love “Catcher in the Rye,” I love Holden Caulfield,’” says Huang. With his feature directorial debut, “ Boogie,” Eddie Huang wanted to challenge his audience.
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