The director-star's 'Blue Bayou' brings to light deportation policies for people adopted from other countries as children.
“Where are you from?” is the question that opens the New Orleans-set drama “Blue Bayou,” and for Korean American director Justin Chon, it’s the source of a complicated reckoning with identity and belonging. “Anyone who is ethnic can completely relate to being asked that question,” Chon says, speaking from Hawaii, where he’s editing a new film.he adopts a Louisiana accent to play Antonio LeBlanc, a struggling tattoo artist who was adopted from Korea as a young child.
I also knew this film was going to require some stuff that was very uncomfortable, and I don’t have to askto be put in those situations. There’s also something to be said about just being in the world with the other actors; it creates a camaraderie and an atmosphere where we’re all in it together because anything that I’m asking them to do, I’m also doing myself.
In the film, you’re extending empathy to cops and to ICE agents, even as you’re depicting the horrors of over-policing and incarceration. Why did you decide to strike a balance there? It was immersion, and a lot of research. I really, truly want to honor their experience and their presence in this country as well.
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