If you’re looking for a heartfelt, star-studded comedy about a dysfunctional family, Oscar-winning director Jessica Yu’s Quiz Lady is hitting Hulu just in time for the start of the holiday season. It’s the filmmaker’s first feature-length project in nearly 10 years, and in that time she’s been hard at work directing for television on series like Parenthood, This Is Us, and most recently, American Horror Story.
Yu’s film stars Awkwafina and Sandra Oh in a cross-country adventure that brings estranged sisters Anne (Awkwafina) and Jenny (Oh) back together when their mother goes missing from her nursing home. Shockingly, this is the least of their problems when they find out she may be on the run from gambling debts. Things escalate further when Anne’s beloved pug, Mr. Linguini, is dognapped as collateral. To get him back and clear their mother’s debt, the siblings are forced to come up with the money, which leads to Jenny’s realization that they can capitalize on Anne’s obsession with game shows.
In an interview with Collider’s Perri Nemiroff, Yu shares what she’s learned while navigating the ever-evolving landscape of television and what she brought with her to the set of Quiz Lady. They discuss the brainstorming session in London where Yu, Awkwafina, and Oh got together to talk about family dynamics and share their own experiences when approaching past traumas and memories, and how they can turn those into laugh-out-loud moments that still bear emotional weight. Yu also talks about how cast members Jason Schwartzman and Will Ferrell were ready for anything on set and why Holland Taylor would make a fun game show partner.
Check out all of this and more in this Quiz Lady interview!
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