Always Be My Maybe 05/31/19 Movie DetailsAbout Always Be My Maybe type Movie Genre Romantic Comedy In Always Be My Maybe, Ali Wong and Randall Park play childhood friends who reconnect as adults
And while the actors haven’t known each other since their youngest years — rather, they met in college while doing improv — the bond between them is one of the many elements that make the film feel authentic, sweet, and wildly funny
EW dug in on Wong and Park’s rom-com favorites and a scene in the film that features an assist from an R&B star
Image zoom I remember it always being a rom-com, and Randall and I have the same taste in movies
We love When Harry Met Sally and Boomerang. We had always talked about writing a movie together one day
They did a profile on Ali in the New Yorker, and she had mentioned this project in passing and they wrote about it in the profile
That little piece got picked up by Vulture and some other outlets and it became this letter to Hollywood and before we knew it we were getting calls for the script, and we didn’t have a script, so we decided to sit down and work on it
Randall, I remember you called me and I was sitting in a super 80s trailer, that is all orange on the inside and the only thing I could do to decorate was to give it a southwestern look with blankets from Pendleton to make it not feel like the sperm of George Hamilton was everywhere
You were like, I think we should do our version of When Harry Met Sally, and I thought that initially he had meant, I want you to write something for me to star in
Then he was like, no, I think it should be us starring in it. : She was involved with another movie before, right? : It was gonna be the first movie she was gonna direct, it was a very big deal and very exciting
We were bummed that she was not available, and then as soon as we found out she was available, we kidnapped her
: We drove up slowly in a car… : Put a black bag over her head…knocked her out… : Put her in the trunk…tied her up and said, “you’re gonna direct this movie
” : We enjoy things that are grounded, but then we’re still fans of big laughs. I always go back to Boomerang, because that movie is so grounded
You remember Halle Berry is the underdog? That’s the ungrounded part. They didn’t even give her a pair of glasses! : [Boomerang] is a classic, and the ways it depicts black people working together and friends with each other
That’s not the point of the movie, but it is a part of their reality. We wanted to show these Asian-Americans living their lives without much emphasis on the Asian-American
: The movie is titled Always Be My Maybe because everybody has somebody from their past that they wonder about
: Ali and I have known each other for so long, things like that D’Angelo song are such huge parts of our life
: That was a fantasy. I want to make out to D’Angelo! [Laughs] See all the trailers from EW’s Summer Movie Preview Ali Wong’s Netflix rom-com Always Be My Maybe unveils release date and trailer 12 upcoming romantic comedies to fall for Always Be My Maybe type Movie Genre Romantic Comedy release date 05/31/19 director Nahnatchka Khan Cast Ali Wong, Randall Park Studio Netflix Complete Coverage Always Be My Maybe