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    Fred Hechinger and Sebiye Behtiyar Are a Vet and an Immigrant in Love in ‘Minding the Hole’ Director Bing Liu’s ‘Preparation for the Subsequent Life’ — First Look

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    Fred Hechinger and Sebiye Behtiyar Are a Vet and an Immigrant in Love in ‘Minding the Hole’ Director Bing Liu’s ‘Preparation for the Subsequent Life’ — First Look
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    Oscar-nominated “Minding the Hole” filmmaker Bing Liu takes his digicam from Rockford, Illinois, to New York Metropolis together with his narrative function debut, “Preparation for the Subsequent Life.” The Chinese language-American doc-maker, who’s labored as a digicam assistant on fiction sequence and movies, additionally uncannily follows within the footsteps of “Nickel Boys” director RaMell Ross in parallel style: Liu is adapting a novel (right here a 2014 e book by Atticus Lish), making the transition from docs to narratives, and in addition for Plan B, Amazon/MGM Studios, and Orion Photos

    With a screenplay by Martyna Majok, the intimate immigrant romance follows an undocumented Uyghur girl (Sebiye Behtiyar) attempting to eke out a life in New York Metropolis and escape the hardships she skilled in China. Working within the metropolis’s kitchens, Aishe tries to know the language and reckon along with her Muslim household historical past, having been skilled by her army father. She falls in love with Skinner, a PTSD-scarred Iraq battle veteran (rising star Fred Hechinger) who has simply returned from three excursions within the Center East.

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    A key collaborator on the undertaking, as Liu advised IndieWire, was casting director Jennifer Venditti (“Uncut Gems,” “Euphoria,” “The Curse,” “The Rehearsal”), who found up-and-coming actor Behtiyar via a SCAD Faculty of Artwork and Design appearing showcase.

    “Jen Venditti is nice as a result of she’s good at discovering the unicorn form of roles which can be tough to forged,” Liu mentioned. Behtiyar’s character wanted to talk three totally different languages, and the actress was “in her first yr of appearing for grad college. She didn’t go to undergrad for appearing, and we noticed her first self-tape, and it was similar to, ‘Wow.’ Generally, you simply see anyone who simply has one thing that’s so watchable and magnetic, and that was very true of her. She has a tough time of not making it actual, and so we acknowledged that instantly.”

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    The movie is produced by Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Adele Romanski, Mark Ceryak, and Barry Jenkins, with Brad Pitt, Sophia Lin, and Liu himself as government producers.

    Liu mentioned when he encountered the 2014 e book, “On the time, I used to be so stunned that there was this piece of literature going round city that had a Uyghur character in it,” he mentioned, referring to the Turkic ethnic minority in China and all through East and Central Asia. “Then I began digging into what her thread is within the e book and it simply eerily [paralleled] my mother’s life story. My mother additionally immigrated over right here [from China] and began working in Chinese language eating places. We have been undocumented for a short while, and he or she had to decide on whether or not or to not construct a life with anyone [in the U.S.],” mentioned Liu, whose household moved from China to the U.S. when he was 5.

    “The themes of what it’s about are so totally different from the immigrant narratives I’ve seen captured earlier than,” Liu mentioned. “There’s one thing concerning the novel that will get past the socioeconomic… [For the film,] the slim tightrope I walked was: How do I signify this character’s previous in her continuation, in her relationship along with her household and the place the place she comes from, and on the identical time, not simply have a considerably myopic view to filter via simply the politics of the present second,” he added, because the Uyghur inhabitants has endured human rights abuses beneath Chinese language authority and internment camps on the stage of World Battle II, and barely publicized in Western media.

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    Producer Jenkins, on the 2021 Nationwide Board of Evaluation gala, championed Liu’s work because the Finest Documentary Characteristic-nominated director of “Minding the Hole” whereas denouncing an immigrant speech by Donald Trump (by way of Selection). The 2 knew one another, although, through the Mountainfilm Telluride Movie Pageant, the place Jenkins was a jury member and now sits on the board. “I bear in mind he was like, ‘Hey, we should always speak. It is best to take into consideration the narrative house.’”

    Liu was advised Jenkins was growing “Preparation for the Subsequent Life” as a TV sequence, however he “went off to do one thing else. ‘Would you prefer to take over?’ And that’s after I got here on.”

    Previous to “Preparation for the Subsequent Life,” Liu was hooked up to write down and direct an adaptation of Ocean Vuong’s novel “On Earth We’re Briefly Beautiful,” a couple of queer Vietnamese American poet grappling together with his lineage and private traumas. That’s not a undertaking Liu continues to be engaged on, nonetheless. “I developed it for a pair years, and there have been inventive variations. I’m now not going to be part of the undertaking.” IndieWire contacted A24 representatives, who had no remark, although we perceive the corporate continues to be growing the Vuong adaptation with out Liu.

    “Preparation for the Subsequent Life” opens in choose theaters on September 5 — additionally the weekend after Telluride, which looks like the perfect wager for a fall competition launch. Take a look at extra first look photos, an IndieWire unique, beneath.

    (L to R) Sebiye Behtiyar as Aishe and Fred Hechinger as Skinner in PREPARATION FOR THE NEXT LIFE, from Amazon MGM Studios.

Photo Credit:  Jaclyn Martinez

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    Fred Hechinger stars as Skinner in PREPARATION FOR THE NEXT LIFE, from Amazon MGM Studios.

Photo Credit:  Jaclyn Martinez

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