Kelly Marie Tran comes out as queer from the set of The Wedding Banquet

“The thing that really excited me about it was I got to play a person that I felt like I knew. I don’t feel like I’m acting at all in this movie,” she adds. “I’m here doing this amazing movie with these amazing people. I’ve never been in a queer space before. I’ve never truly felt this accepted before.”

The remake stars Tran and Lily Gladstone as a gay couple trying to have a baby via IVF. Their best friends, played by Bowen Yang and Han Gi-chan, face their own difficulty as Han’s family pressures him to return to Korea and take over the family business. They launch a scheme to have a traditional Korean wedding that will help fund the fertility treatments and secure Han a green card to stay in the U.S.

Tran points to the mother-daughter relationship in the film as one of the ways it feels true to life: “I came out to my mom in a very specific experience,” she explains. “The scenes that I have with Joan Chen in this movie are very similar to the experience that I had.” And in comparison to Lee’s Wedding Banquet, she says, “The spirit is the same, and I think it’s even more queer.” You can read more about the upcoming remake here.