How a Chinese credit card nearly ruined TheFarewell's premiere
Filmmaker Lulu Wang was dining with her boyfriend — director Barry Jenkins — in Montreal on July 5 when she got word that one of the stars of her new movie,Chinese actress Hong Lu, 59, had taken a 16-hour flight to attend the film's July 8 Manhattan premiere, but the front desk clerk at her hotel — which nobody wants to name — wouldn't accept Lu's Chinese credit card. Wang tried to use her credit card, but the clerk wouldn't take it over the phone.
So Jenkins came to the rescue, asking his 180,000 Twitter followers for help. Within minutes, a New York writer-editor named Andrew Littlefield dashed to the hotel and checked in the actress with his card.. The reward? Tickets to the premiere which he unfortunately had to pass on. “I was unable to attend due to travel plans. I look forward to seeingHe'll have plenty of company: The movie opened to $351,330 from four theaters, giving it the best per-screen average of 2019.
Look at this movie star, ready to walk her first red carpet tomorrow for the NY premiere of THE FAREWELL! Gotta thank
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