Crazy Rich Asians

The Crazy Rich Asians... I never saw that. Was it good? I didn't like it because I don't like romcoms.

Crazy Rich Asians was shown as the inflight entertainment. I didn't notice that. It did.

I read the book Crazy Rich Asians when Nina Jacobson first bought the rights to the book, and I was like, oh my God, these are all fictional characters, my friends.

When I read the book Crazy Rich Asians, it felt like I was reading about people I knew, which helped spark the idea for the show.

Bling Empire ... is the new hot trending reality TV show based off of or loosely based off of Crazy Rich Asians.

So you made Crazy Rich Asians because someone in your family had read it and called your attention to it.

So you adapted the movie from a novel by Kevin Kwan and there's a lot of personal things from his life in that movie.

So you adapted the movie from a novel by Kevin Kwan and there's a lot of personal things from his life in that movie.

I really wanted to stay true to the book and I also like, you know when I when I was developing the character. I actually was was asking these questions To John through my agents like do they want a Singaporean accent because the Singaporean accent is very different.

Cuz cuz the accent I was going for you know, Oliver's is very much like an outsider in his own family Yeah, and and he is pretentious and wants to convey this image of even more so of a wealth and class that that he doesn't have because he's not as rich as the rest of his family members So I kind of wanted to sort of like posh II Snobby accent.

I think the thing is that the first movie departs pretty far how the first book ends right and Okay that I can't say but what I can say I'm starting to filter like yeah, wow, it's like it's almost like you have an NDA But I think I think the idea is that they're just now going to do What they want with who's available at the time there is to film like once we can film again

Does Crazy Rich Asians count as a book?

And did you read it?

No.

Yeah absolutely, it is a book.

What the fuck, man? Alright, I don't think so, honey. Crazy Rich Asians. Look, I didn't see it, right? But I know Crazy Rich Asians, alright? I live near Delhi City.

I know it's important to have these movies because it's Asian people's time. It's your time, look, half your time.

But you know the thing that got me about the movie was that they had the old controversy that there were no brown Asians in the movie.

Yeah, let's get some crazy brown rich Asians.

That's what happened with Crazy Rich Asians, remember?

I know.

Because I had found out that they were gonna turn the book into the movie.

And I told Bobby I was like, oh, you should get in on this.

And then so he calls his reps and they were like, oh yeah, we don't like nothing about it, that's not gonna happen.