May 23, 2022
Link: How Stephanie Hsu Brought One of the Year’s Best Queer Characters to Life (James Factora)
“Queerness, as Hsu puts it, exists indelibly in the texture of the movie. That much is clear in the way that she effortlessly portrays Joy/Jobu/Joybu in all her contradictions — Joy’s muted sorrow and rage, Jobu’s almost hedonistic mode of self destruction, and the tensions that arise when those two tendencies clash. Between her stunning performance in the movie and her deeply thoughtful philosophies on acting and other forms of making art, it’s almost hard to believe that Everything Everywhere is her first feature film. It’s clear that Hsu and her ‘undeniable talent’ are here to stay.”
