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Jane Campion. “None of the other movies I was watching were directed by women, so that realization was breathtaking,” she says. “just gave me so much hope.” When Campion was nominated for a best direction Academy Award for the film in 1994, a teenage Hugh tuned in. Through that telecast, she was introduced to the creators behind the films she’d loved for years. “All of a sudden, I realized there are people who make these movies and who conceive of stories this way.
Twenty-eight years later, Campion finally has a Best Director win under her belt, and Hugh’s dreams have been more than realized. The writer and producer has multiple credits to her name, including CBS’sThe new Apple TV+ series, based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Min Jin Lee, tells the story of a Korean family across four generations and three countries.
On a fated flight back from London, she finally dove in. “It was like lightning struck. It was one of those eureka moments where your life changes,” Hugh recalls. But she still wasn’t convinced she was the right person to adapt the story. “Right now, Hollywood is very much an IP-driven marketplace, and they want every book to be made, especially a bestseller,” Hugh says. “But if your reason for adapting is just, ‘This book is brilliant,’ then people should just read the book.
It was that vision which pulled in, not only Apple, but the impressive cast and crew that eventually brought Hugh’s adaption to life. “I was a fan of the book, but when I saw the scripts for the series, I was blown away,” says Justin Chon, director of four of the show’s eight episodes. So was Lee Min-Ho, the Korean superstar who agreed to audition for the role of Hansu—his first time doing so in 13 years.
The stylistic change is a powerful one, and emphasizes how Sunja’s generation experienced so much uncertainty in their lifetime. Episode three of the series opens with a sequence moving back and forth between a teenage Sunja preparing a meal for the boarders at her family’s lodging house to Youn Yuh-jung’s Sunja making a meal for her family in the ’80s. An old pot becomes a rice cooker, a wooden block turns into a plastic cutting board, and the boarders morph into her son, on his way to work.
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