Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert narrate a sequence from their film starring Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan.

Hi, this is Daniel Kwan, this is Daniel Scheinert and we are the Daniels and we wrote and directed everything everywhere all at once your brother gets divorced now you think tv bosses? Okay. I don't think it's okay, so this movie is mostly about people thinking that they're in different movies and different genres and the kind of the confusion that can come from that. Yeah so specifically Michelle Yeoh's character. Evelyn has just punched her auditor in the face because she thought she is in an action movie. But uh and then she picked up some papers off the floor and discovered that her husband wants a divorce and suddenly the music switches and they're talking about divorce and you'll see we're going to switch genres a few more times as we go. Yeah so every good action movie has to have like a good kick off action sequence and we knew that we wanted to do something in the I. R. S. Building where Evelyn's character is kind of helplessly watching as the alpha Wayman's character, The character who has taken over her husband's body from another universe gets to really just show off what this movie is gonna be. Um But in a way that is mysterious in a way that hopefully causes you to ask a lot of questions and want to keep watching and so the Fannie pack fight. We just felt like it would be a really fun opportunity to do all those things and it was also just fun to you know as a chinese american who had a dad who carried around his Fannie pack everywhere. Um it was fun to take that a stereotype that kind of has become a source of derision and turn it into something kind of fun and magical and turn it on its head right from the very beginning of writing this movie, we had this idea that in order to get powers from another universe, you'd have to do something really weird. And so this is the first scene where we get to see someone do something as strange as eat your own chapstick. We had a couple of priorities when shooting the scene. We didn't want to shake the camera a lot and we also wanted the actors to do the action. We didn't want to have to like point away from their faces. So all of these security guards are played by actual stuntmen and women and ke quan does almost all his action in this scene. I think with these types of action sequences, you need two things. You need like these really beautiful wide shots where you really get to see what is happening and be really objective about it. But then the other thing is like a lot of these really specific intentional inserts and cutaways and close ups that sometimes they can build attention. It started with us writing out general beats and then our choreography team was this group of guys that called themselves the Martial club and the Martial club or like youtube, famous kung fu nerds from Orange County and they ran with it and made a much longer version of this fight. But then we worked with them to cut down to the right size. Then our stunt coordinator, Tim Ulich, brought together the actual Team and they learned it like one big dance.

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