![]() ![]() ![]() Teo Yoo and Greta Lee as childhood friends reunited in "Past Lives." Jon Pack So strong was the script, and so inextricable from Song’s own life was it, that production company A24 suggested she direct the movie, despite her having no prior experience in such a role. She has also written for Amazon’s fantasy series “The Wheel of Time.” Before “Past Lives,” Song wrote the stage play “Endlings,” which debuted in 2019 at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with its subsequent New York run cut short by the Covid-19 pandemic. The movie’s grand arc is pulled from Song’s own life, in which she, like Nora, has built a career as a playwright in New York. As a thirtysomething living in New York City with her writer husband Arthur, she is visited by Hae Sung, her childhood sweetheart, causing her to contemplate what her life might have been had she not left. It tells the story of Nora, a character who moves from Korea to Canada as a child, and later makes a life in the United States. “Past Lives,” by Korean Canadian writer and director Celine Song, is broadly autobiographical. Their film is testament to what happens when that stick is held in the right hands. “For quite some time now, a lot of people, myself included, have felt so strongly about questioning who gets to be the storyteller – who gets to hold the storytelling stick.” “The idea of what makes an American movie in and of itself is changing,” she told CNN. To his credit Magaro did, for an earnest, meandering minute or so, before Lee, laughing, cut in with an answer of her own. “John, you should take this one,” Lee deadpanned. A question about the recent flurry of Asian American stories in the spotlight felt topical. ![]() The actor was sitting with John Magaro and Teo Yoo for an interview about their film “Past Lives,” an achingly beautiful romantic drama about a Korean immigrant’s experiences in the US. Greta Lee isn’t afraid to mess around with her co-stars. ![]()
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