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Jon M. Chu Didn’t Think He “Deserved To Be In Hollywood” Before ‘Crazy Rich Asians’: “I Got Very Lucky”

Deadline·Glenn Garner·30 days ago
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Nearly 20 years after his directorial debut, Jon M. Chu is reflecting on the imposter syndrome he’s faced in his career. The Wicked director recently admitted that he once didn’t think he “deserved to be in Hollywood” during a Canva Create panel last month at SoFi Stadium, explaining that he frequently questions, “Why am I the person to tell the story?” “When you said my list of movies, it lit up and you said Crazy Rich Asians ,” he said, according to People . “That was a big point in my life. I didn’t think I deserved to be in Hollywood. I was discovered and I got very lucky. And when you win the lottery, you think you actually don’t know how you got there. So you actually can’t win the lottery again.” Chu added, “I had to learn how to win in a different way or how to tell my story. … As I go through my career, that moment, choosing to do something that only I could tell was a scary … I was like, ‘No one’s going to see this movie.’ I actually told my team, I was like, ‘I’m going to make a movie.…

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