It was shortly after Eddie Huang got out of an Italian jail cell and was in the doghouse with his third TV show that he thought: “Maybe it’s time to make that coming-of-age sports movie I’ve been thinking about.”
To hear the 39-year-old raconteur, Renaissance man, and director of the basketball drama Boogie tell it over Zoom while sitting in his book-cluttered office in Los Angeles, it sounds like the most natural decision in the world. As with so many transitions in Huang’s life, the shift from...
To hear the 39-year-old raconteur, Renaissance man, and director of the basketball drama Boogie tell it over Zoom while sitting in his book-cluttered office in Los Angeles, it sounds like the most natural decision in the world. As with so many transitions in Huang’s life, the shift from...
- 3/24/2021
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
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"Let's take a deep breath right now, right before we start," Taylour Paige suggested to me over the phone. It was four days before the release of her latest project, Boogie, but the actress proposed the meditative pause to give us a moment of clarity from the hectic Monday before we dove into our conversation. It only lasted a breath, but it was the perfect introduction to Paige as a person: introspective, astute, and empathetic. It's her insightfulness that almost led her to reject the role of Boogie's Eleanor, the high schooler with a fiery disposition who falls in love with basketball player Alfred Chin (Taylor Takahashi).
"When I first got it, I turned it down because I was like, 'I'm not in high school and I do not want to be dragged for this,' because no one needs another reason to drag someone," the 30-year-old rightly pointed out.
"Let's take a deep breath right now, right before we start," Taylour Paige suggested to me over the phone. It was four days before the release of her latest project, Boogie, but the actress proposed the meditative pause to give us a moment of clarity from the hectic Monday before we dove into our conversation. It only lasted a breath, but it was the perfect introduction to Paige as a person: introspective, astute, and empathetic. It's her insightfulness that almost led her to reject the role of Boogie's Eleanor, the high schooler with a fiery disposition who falls in love with basketball player Alfred Chin (Taylor Takahashi).
"When I first got it, I turned it down because I was like, 'I'm not in high school and I do not want to be dragged for this,' because no one needs another reason to drag someone," the 30-year-old rightly pointed out.
- 3/10/2021
- by Mekishana Pierre
- Popsugar.com
Even though it’s moving at a slower pace than many would like, the vaccine rollout is starting to gain some traction and in turn, moviegoers are going to start setting foot in theaters — safely of course. That said, the specialty box office space might be hearing some more coin drop into its piggy bank in the forthcoming months. It’s been quite a journey, but we’ll get there slowly yet surely.
Eddie Huang, who is best known for writing the best-selling Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir which was the inspiration for the popular ABC sitcom, makes his feature directorial debut with Boogie which Focus Features releases in theaters today.
The story follows Alfred Chin (Taylor Takahashi) who goes by the name “Boogie”. He is a basketball phenom living in Queens, New York and dreams of one day playing in the NBA. However, his parents have other plans for him.
Eddie Huang, who is best known for writing the best-selling Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir which was the inspiration for the popular ABC sitcom, makes his feature directorial debut with Boogie which Focus Features releases in theaters today.
The story follows Alfred Chin (Taylor Takahashi) who goes by the name “Boogie”. He is a basketball phenom living in Queens, New York and dreams of one day playing in the NBA. However, his parents have other plans for him.
- 3/5/2021
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Eddie Huang’s Boogie is a basketball movie, but one of its best moments comes courtesy of tennis. Boogie, né Alfred Chin (Taylor Takahashi) comes back to his home in Flushing, Queens, to find his Taiwanese immigrant father (Perry Yung) rewatching, for apparently the gazillionth time, the 1989 French Open match between Taiwanese-American upstart Michael Chang and the heavily favored world No. 1, Ivan Lendl. Chang won that match, which happened the day after the Tiananmen Square massacre, and went on to win the tournament. When Dad repeats his fervent assertion that...
- 3/4/2021
- by Jessica Kiang
- Rollingstone.com
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