The Joy Luck Club Is Getting A Sequel 30 Years Later

Nearly 30 years after The Joy Luck Club got here out, a sequel is now in improvement. Amy Tan, writer of the best-selling novel that the film relies on, and Oscar-winning screenwriter, Ron Bass, are working collectively to proceed the multigenerational story, with the unique main forged in talks to return.

Kiều Chinh performed Suyuan (June’s mom):

Chinh, a Vietnamese-American actor, was born in Hanoi, then a part of French Indochina, in 1937. She was 56 when The Joy Luck Club premiered:

Here she is now in 2022 at 84:

Here’s a side-by-side of Chinh when The Joy Luck Club premiered and now:

Tsai Chin performed Lindo (Waverly’s mom):

Chin, a Chinese actress, was born in Tianjin in 1933 and grew up within the then-Shanghai French Concession beneath the Western identify, “Irene Chow.” She was 60 when The Joy Luck Club premiered:

Here she is in 2019 at 85:

Here’s a side-by-side look:

France Nuyen performed Ying-Ying (Lena’s mom):

Nuyen, a French actor of blended French and Vietnamese descent (although she’s mentioned her father was “probably of Chinese origin”), was born in Marseille, France in 1939. She was 54 when The Joy Luck Club premiered, and right here she is a 12 months later at 55:

Here she is in 2021 at 81:

Here are each images subsequent to one another:

Lisa Lu performed An-Mei (Rose’s mom):

Lu, a Chinese actor, was born in Beijing, China in 1927 and immigrated to the US, the place she discovered success in tv within the Nineteen Fifties. She was 66 when The Joy Luck Club premiered:

Here she is in 2021, at a younger 94(!):

Okay, this is a side-by-side look:

Tamlyn Tomita performed Waverly, a single mom and former youngster chess champion who’s marrying a white man, a lot to her mom’s chagrin:

Tomita, a Japanese American actor, was born in Okinawa City — then beneath the US Civil Administration of the Ryukyu Islands — in 1966. She was 27 when The Joy Luck Club premiered:

Here she is now in 2022, at 56:

Here’s a side-by-side look:

Rosalind Chao performed Rose, who has misplaced her assertive persona and have become submissive to achieve acceptance from her white husband’s social circle:

Chao, a Chinese American actor, was born in Anaheim, California in 1957. She was 35 when The Joy Luck Club premiered:

Here she is now in 2020, at 63:

And listed below are each Rosalinds facet by facet:

Lauren Tom performed Lena, who has married her boss and is uncomfortable as a result of, although they break up the price of all the pieces evenly, he domineers their monetary preparations and ignores her wants:

Tom, a Chinese-American actor, was born in Highland Park, Illinois in 1961. She was 32 when The Joy Luck Club premiered:

Here she is in 2021 at 60:

Ming-Na Wen performed June, who’s by no means met her mom’s expectations as a toddler resulting from an absence of curiosity and now seems like a failure in her mom’s eyes:

Wen, a Chinese-American actor, was born in Coloane — then a part of Portuguese Macau — in 1963. She was 29 when The Joy Luck Club premiered:

Here she is now in 2022 at 58:

Here are the images side-by-side:

May all of us age in addition to these unimaginable girls!

Here’s Kiều Chinh in 1982 in a promotional photograph for the ABC tv film, The Letter:

Here she is once more with Alan Alda in an episode of M*A*S*H in 1977:

Here she is at 45, 56, and 84:

Here’s a photograph of Tsai Chin taken throughout a break from rehearsals for The World of Suzie Wong, by which she starred as Suzie Wong, in 1959:

Here’s one other photograph of her from 1960:

And right here she is at 26, 60, and 85:

Here’s France Nuyen whereas filming South Pacific in 1958:

Here she is subsequent to Goldie Hawn when she’d guest-starred on an episode of the sketch comedy present, Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, in 1968:

Here she is at 19, 55, and 81:

Here’s a portrait of Lisa Lu (together with her signature!) from 1960:

And right here she is once more (with James Stewart on the left) in a scene from The Mountain Road in 1960:

Here she is at 33, 66, and 94: