welcome back focus fans long time no see this is real destinations where we tour the locations
that make our favorite movies look and feel real
today we're heading down south to explore a new american locale
what time is it it's early i got jessie fed i'll get her to school okay
blue by used as justin chun and alicia vikander as antonio and kathy leblanc
as a korean-american adoptee antonio just wants to provide the best life he can for his family
but an unfortunate encounter forces him to face his past and he and his family learn
he could be deported from the only place he has ever called home and did i see you
set deep in bayou country the film was shot on location in new orleans louisiana
and today i have the pleasure of speaking with the film star writer director and producer justin chun
who will give us insight into why this multicultural city was the perfect setting for
his latest movie hi justin hi hi alicia i know you said when you film in a city you try to capture
the authentic soul of a place so what were you trying to capture about new orleans specifically
this film does not take place in the new orleans that everyone knows it's more on the other side
of the river on the other side of the bridge it does feel like real new orleans the everyday life
type new orleans see why you like it out here it's beautiful when it came to finding the right house
for antonio and kathy what were you looking for i wanted something that felt uh quintessentially
new orleans which is a shotgun home the thing i love about shotgun homes is you have to pass
the rooms to get to the other places within the home so it requires everyone to have to interact
with each other to be a family but uh at the same time when there's conflict there's nowhere to go
it don't look that bad jesse don't look that bad i mean i wish i could change my head like that
oh come on okay no i i'll take that back
another important location is the tattoo shop where antonio works as a tattoo artist what went
into finding that location i had lost alcohol but i didn't think we're gonna find something but we
found this place then ace b who plays antonio's best friend in the film was uh at one point a
tattoo artist at that particular parlor we went over there and we talked to the owner of miss
jackie we barely dressed it it's the real deal and jackie is a bit of a local legend isn't she
she's a legend and she's no nonsense too and i also put her in the film
it's only fitting because she's just so real like you're not gonna get more real than that you know
i can get shut down for this hey chill out man they're having a parent-child bonding moment
i messed that up how would you know what that is your mama dropped you on your head
antonio makes friends with parker throughout the film so when it came to looking for a
place for parker's father you wanted to find something that felt authentically vietnamese
yeah the east side of new orleans is is where there's a huge vietnamese community we found a
beautiful house the owner of the house was this older vietnamese gentleman and when i went there
i brought lindan who plays parker with me she was like oh that's interesting you know like the owner
of the house the same vietnamese dialect is me so i was like okay well he's going to play your dad
he's as authentic as you can get and at lunch time his wife made all this food
and was feeding the crew and just was like very family affair my dad says you have a kind face
new orleans is one of my absolute favorite places in the world i really really hope that
they see the effort that was put into making it authentic and showing in a way that's not from
like a tourist you know eyes it just makes it so much more real in the way you believe
the characters and their lives hopefully the people who live there feel that it's their film
new orleans is a lively colorful city teeming with rich culture and history making it a memorable
destination for travellers and film productions alike and to see more of this unique perspective
on louisiana check out the moving drama blue by you only in theaters september 17th come on let's
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