Lily Gladstone Bags Another Queer Role In The Remake Of Ang Lee’s ‘The Wedding Banquet’

LGBTQ Movie

2024-04-29
11:53

Lily Gladstone in another queer role? Count us in!

After landing queer roles in films such as ‘Under The Bridge’ and the upcoming movie ‘Fancy Dance,’ the Oscar-nominated actress is once again playing another queer character for the remake of Ang Lee’s 1993 classic Taiwanese film ‘The Wedding Banquet’.

In an article by The Cinemaholic, Gladstone is reported to play a lesbian character who is in a relationship with another woman who agrees to marry a gay man for her immigration and to appease her family.

The official synopsis of ‘The Wedding Banquet’ reads: “Simon and Wei-Tung are a gay couple living together in Manhattan. To defer the suspicions of Wei-Tung’s parents, Simon suggests a marriage of convenience between Wei-Tung and Wei-Wei, an immigrant in need of a green card. When Wei-Tung’s parents come to America for the wedding, they insist upon an elaborate banquet, resulting in several complications.”

In this new version by ‘Fire Island’ director Andrew Ahn, the main character, who is yet to be cast, will be Korean and is named Min, “who is a Korean queer man who is about to finish his Master’s in Fine Arts” and someone “who can boast K-pop star looks while wearing his heart on his very expensive sleeves.”

Starring alongside Gladstone are Bowen Yang, Kelly Marie Tran, Joan Chen, and Youn Yuh-jung.

The film, previously led by Winston Chao, May Chin, and Mitchell Lichtenstein, won a Golden Bear at the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award. It was also recently added to the US Library of Congress’s National Film Registry.

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