About the book
Long before directing Crazy Rich Asians, In the Heights and Wicked, Jon M. Chu grew up as a first-generation Chinese American obsessed with movies, pitching in at the family's Chinese restaurant in Silicon Valley while wrestling with the identity questions that children of immigrants face. In his memoir Chu describes how growing up around new technology prepared him for film school at USC and for being discovered by Steven Spielberg, and how success still left him unsure of who he was. He also gives a firsthand account of Silicon Valley colliding with Hollywood as his old world broke apart and reshaped the new one. Jeremy McCarter co-wrote the 2024 memoir with him.
Jay Shetty said he relates to Chu's story, being a child of immigrants who grew up in the UK and had to make his own way in an industry where few people looked like him.
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I relate to his story, being the child of immigrants growing up in the UK, trying to forge my path in an industry filled with people who don’t look like me.
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