#eli chu

[galaxiesinyourveins]

[geek-girl-writes]

“I was actually hoping to lure people in who live in a town like that right now, or grew up in a town like that. Hopefully, they fall in love with the characters, and then by the end it might make them think a little bit more about that one immigrant family in town. Because for whatever reason, in the whitest towns in the country, there's always one POC family or one immigrant family.”

--Alice Wu, Director ‘Half Of It”

[cutiepipe]

Ok guys, I really need « 🍍🦉🐛 » to stay a secret gay thing ok? Don’t talk about it on TikTok or I don’t know where, it’s the secret 🏳️‍🌈 for those who aren’t ready yet. Come back in a couple years!

[geek-girl-writes]

I had a really good friend, who eventually became my best friend, who was a straight white guy. He's not who I might have initially thought, "This is going to be the person that I will become best friends with." But we somehow just got each other. He was so good at treating me no differently when he found out I was gay.

Eventually, I had to move for a job. As he progressed with his life and he found somebody, there was a moment that was a little bit confusing for us. I actually remember this friend saying to me that he wasn't allowed to talk about the relationship with me, because his girlfriend felt threatened by that. I remember being like, If you can't talk to your best friend about what's happening in your romantic relationship, what is there to talk about? At the time I said, "This is going to kill our friendship. And if anything were going to happen between us, wouldn't it have already happened?"

And he said, "She's not threatened that we're going to have sex or anything. She's threatened by our intimacy."

-Alice Wu, Director of ‘Half Of It”

[geek-girl-writes]

Maybe there's a bit of wish fulfillment there, too. Here's these deeply flawed characters that have a lot of the flaws I do, but somehow they end up OK. Somehow, they end up growing

Alice Wu, Director of ‘Half Of It’