SPOILERS are forward for The Marriage ceremony Banquet, now taking part in in theaters.
The Marriage ceremony Banquet is a kind of new LGBTQ+ motion pictures I am simply so joyful exists due to the way it depicts queer individuals. Whereas there’s been an enormous chunk of films by, for and concerning the LGBTQ+ neighborhood discussing the issues and ache dealing with them, Andrew Ahn’s remake to the 1993 film from Ang Lee takes a extra advanced method than we’re used to seeing on the large display.
Its characters are completely going via it, nevertheless it’s handled in such a fantastically human method that additionally leaves room for his or her pleasure and happiness (and laughs from the viewers). So when CinemaBlend spoke to the solid, we needed to focus on the film’s finale with them.
Lily Gladstone Reacts To The Marriage ceremony Banquet’s Lovely Ending
After the fundamental premise of The Marriage ceremony Banquet has one couple (Gladstone’s Lee and Kelly Marie Tran’s Angela) coping with the bills that include doing IVF, their prayers are weirdly answered when their pal Min (Han Gi-Chan) must have a inexperienced card marriage so as to keep in America. Angela agrees to marry him whereas Min’s boyfriend Chris (Bowen Yang) contemplates why he’s not able to say “I do” to him.
In a hilarious flip of occasions, Angela really turns into pregnant with Chris’ child throughout a drunken night time out, all of the whereas Lee’s IVF process is profitable. Oh, and Chris crashes Min and Angela’s authorized wedding ceremony to marry him as a substitute (after having a conventional ceremony the place a Star Wars joke completely made its method in). Once we spoke to Gladstone, Tran and Han, the Oscar nominee stated this about her ideas on the top:
[When watching the end with an audience] there may be this cascade of ‘Oh, oh, ahhhh!!!’ That’s my favourite. And, it is simply celebratory. And whether or not you figured it out, whether or not you are stunned by the ending, it is pleasant. And the way in which that it was shot and it is like thought out, ‘trigger it was the inverse initially. It is like you might see the reflection of the crib, however the child was getting grabbed from one which’s off digital camera first. So identical to switching that to assist droop the disbelief slightly longer.
The Marriage ceremony Banquet premiered at Sundance to rave reactions earlier this 12 months (and we additionally cherished it in our The Marriage ceremony Banquet evaluate) earlier than it turned one of many newest of 2025 motion pictures to hit theaters. Gladstone shared she particularly loves the “cascade of shock” that occurs when it is revealed that Angela and Lee have had each infants and they’re elevating them with Min and Chris. As Gladstone continued:
After which simply having this massive chosen household have this superior group hug the place these two infants are going to develop up as siblings. It is a pretty little embracing radical second of decolonial love.
It’s really the right ending for it contemplating the entire film is about embracing discovered household and imperfection. Whereas Lee is initially heartbroken by Angela dishonest on her with their widespread pal, she finds understanding in her coronary heart for the error, they usually get to have a singular neighborhood round not one, however their two children. It’s the sweetest ending.
The Candy Cause Why Lily Gladstone Desires A Sequel To The Marriage ceremony Banquet
As I instructed the solid, I’d completely like to see the 4 queer characters of The Marriage ceremony Banquet undergo some hijinks collectively whereas elevating their children in a sequel. Gladstone shared that she was additionally considering that for one explicit cause. In her phrases:
I’m [rooting for a sequel] too, really. I’d wanna see each of these infants of their naming ceremony in a Duwamish longhouse ‘trigger each of these infants can be given a Duwamish identify.
The Duwamish is an indigenous tribe who stay in Washington, the place the film is ready. Forward of filming, Lily Gladstone requested if her character may particularly be Duwamish to replicate the land they have been depicting. Whereas this film doesn’t delve deep into the character’s indigenous roots, she factors out {that a} sequel may, particularly with regards to the elevating of their children and desirous to replicate a few of her cultural traditions.
Gladstone is certainly persevering with to deliver nice characters from indigenous communities to the films she is a part of, and The Marriage ceremony Banquet was made up of tons of queer castmates and crew members, too. We want extra motion pictures about LGBTQ+ individuals like this, particularly with regards to an ending as candy as this one.