Bonus Episode: Jon M. Chu

TED Radio Hour

• Episode: Bonus Episode: Jon M. Chu
• Website: TED Radio Hour
• Feed URL: https://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=510298
• Duration: 00:37:50
• Published: 2021-06-08 06:01

Ever since he started shooting home movies with his family's bulky video camera, Jon M. Chu knew he wanted to be a filmmaker. But after directing several Hollywood blockbuster films like G.I. Joe: Retaliation and Now You See Me 2, Jon felt uninspired by the stories he was bringing to the silver screen. In 2018, he directed Crazy Rich Asians — the first Hollywood film with a majority Asian cast in 25 years — and in 2021, Lin Manuel Miranda's In the Heights. We featured Jon M. Chu in TED Radio Hour's recent episode The Artist's Voice.