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COMIC: Director Jon M. Chu's long journey from home videos to 'In The Heights'

By LA Johnson,
Katie Monteleone, Janet W. Lee
Published June 11, 2021 at 6:00 AM EDT
Fred Chao/NPR

Ever since he started shooting home movies with his family's bulky video camera, Jon M. Chu knew he wanted to be a filmmaker. But after directing several Hollywood blockbuster films like G.I. Joe: Retaliation and Now You See Me 2, Jon felt uninspired by the stories he was bringing to the silver screen.

In 2018, he directed Crazy Rich Asians 鈥� the first Hollywood film with a majority Asian cast in 25 years 鈥� and in 2021, Lin Manuel Miranda's In the Heights.

This comic, illustrated by , is inspired by recent episode, .

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Fred Chao is a freelance illustrator and designer based in California.

The podcast version of this story was hosted by , produced by James Delahoussaye, edited by Sanaz Meshkinpour. It was adapted for the web by and .

Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.

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Katie Monteleone is a producer for TED Radio Hour. She started out as an intern for the show in January 2019. After her internship, Monteleone began producing for Life Kit before returning to the TED Radio Hour team in October 2019 as a full-time producer.
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