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Interview with Didi: Sean Wang, Izaac Wang and Joan Chen talk shock sites, fart sniffing and more

Interview with Didi: Sean Wang, Izaac Wang and Joan Chen talk shock sites, fart sniffing and more

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Focus Features' Didi is in theaters now and continues its nationwide expansion this week. ComingSoon Editor-in-Chief Tyler Treese spoke with Didi director Sean Wang, plus stars Izaac Wang and Joan Chen, about the hilarious, age-appropriate comedy.

Interview with Didi: Sean Wang, Izaac Wang and Joan Chen talk shock sites, fart sniffing and more

"In 2008, during the last summer month before high school starts, a sensitive 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his family can't teach him: how to skate, how to flirt, and how to love his mother," the synopsis reads.

Tyler Treese: Congratulations on Didi. This is one of my favorite movies of the year. Sean, I love so many of the little details, the references to shocking sites, the venting of frustrations with SmarterChild, and the buying of a ringtone to impress the girl. It's such a human element. Was that a result of a lot of revisions or was that always in the script?

Sean Wang: Both. I think it was always in the script that a lot of the internet at the time would be a part of it. So the ringtones and that, that was very story-driven. Like the ringtones that changed to shape his identity. Like when does he have Hellogoodbye? When does he have a regular ringtone? When does he have the ringtone that he puts on for the skaters? But some of it was created in post-production because we created all of that in post-production, we could change jokes and lines. So some of the shock value sites that you were talking about, that was a line and a joke that we tried different versions of in post-production to see what would get the best reaction.