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In the late '90s, Chester and Sonny are a long-term, committed, romantic couple. When Sonny wants to redefine their rela | dG1fY1FwSm12R1dTUm8

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00:00I think I'm falling in love with someone else.

00:02What do you want to do?

00:04I guess I'm just asking for your permission to see where this goes.

00:10Paying for it is a, my friend says it's a double act of portraiture,

00:14based on, adapted from the graphic novel by Chester Brown,

00:18which was a memoir in itself,

00:20and because I was a character in the graphic novel,

00:23I took a whole bunch of stuff that wasn't in the novel

00:26that I was privy to in our relationship as former lovers,

00:30still family members, and kind of brought it in.

00:34So it's really kind of a hybrid of reality, fiction, all mausled up.

00:40Where I did cast through a regular manner

00:43was through for the casting of Chester and Sunny.

00:47She's called Sunny, not Suk-Yin,

00:49because I take more artistic license with her.

00:51She's a work of autofiction.

00:53Many of the things that she went through are derived from my own experience,

00:56but kind of molded and shaped,

00:58whereas I try to support Chester's story as he sees it in his memoir.

01:02With Sunny, it was important that this person come from

01:06a real-lived sort of alternative life experience.

01:10And then also, Emily and I are first-gen, Asian-Canadian,

01:14and so we understand the discord involved in intergenerational trauma

01:20that informs, it's not on the page or in the story,

01:23but it informs her decisions and many of her choices.

01:27She's different from me in that she's much more grounded

01:31and very kind of emotionally more mature.

01:35I think I'm much more, you know, probably neurotic.

01:43And when I brought Dan and Emily together for a Zoom

01:49audition, she was in Vancouver, he was in Toronto.

01:53They couldn't see each other, and they were doing stuff that was like,

01:57oh my God, it was...

01:59She passes him the book, and they literally passed the book

02:03through the two separate monitors.

02:06And I just...

02:08And I believe this relationship of love,

02:11despite conflict and differing wishes and desires,

02:16you can't help but have that resonate.

02:18And then also the love relationship between Chester and I.

02:21He's still my family, my best friend, the person I call first thing,

02:25last person I talk to on the phone.

02:27And it's deep.

02:29And I think you can't fabricate that stuff.

02:33And it just resonates from the story and all elements of the filmmaking,

02:36the messenger.

02:38I'm thinking of writing about this.

02:40My experience is paying for sex.

02:46♪

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