Blue Bayou (2021)

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Blue Bayou is a 2021 American drama film written and directed by Justin Chon. The film stars Chon, Alicia Vikander, Mark O'Brien, Linh Dan Pham, Sydney Kowalske, Vondie Curtis-Hall, and Emory Cohen.

Production

In October 2019, Justin Chon, Alicia Vikander, Mark O'Brien, Linh Dan Pham, and Emory Cohen were announced to have joined the cast of the film, with Chon directing from a screenplay he wrote.

Principal photography began in October 2019, and concluded by December. It was filmed and set in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Chon worked on the movie for four years. He consulted with five adoptees, who read drafts; they were consulted throughout the writing process and Chon spent hundreds of hours on the phone with them. When he had an edit, he screened it for some adoptees and then received notes from them and changed the edit through the postproduction of the film to make sure that they felt comfortable with it.

The movie is based on true stories Chon heard from Korean adoptee friends, as well as research that revealed a broader crisis for Asian-American adoptees of a certain age. In the U.S., the Child Citizenship Act of 2000 grants citizenship to all children adopted from overseas, but it does not protect anyone who turned 18 before the law was passed.

Chon mentioned in a GQ magazine interview, "A lot of people were adopted in the '70s and '80s. It just doesn't make sense to me. For the case of this movie, you have somebody who is a step further than that; you already have these questions of identity from being adopted. And then, not all adoptions end well. So sometimes parents give up their adopted kids, or they abuse them. Antonio goes through foster care and is abused.

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