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Joan Chen is on a hot streak.

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The character actress is always good, sure, but these days, shes better than good.

Now that we can get married, do we even want to?

Min loves Chris and wants to be married, but Chris cant decide if he wants to commit.

May you see, is on thePFLAGboard.

She cant havea heterosexual daughter.

As May, Chen is cloying and enthusiastic and undeniably glamorous.

She loves being an ally, especially one in the public eye.

No one is more accepting than her, and Chen carries this sanctimoniousness with a loving wink.

Like any convoluted romantic comedy,The Wedding Banquets foursomes big silly scheme doesnt exactly go according to plan.

She brings a much-needed weight to Ahns uneven marriage-plot farce, grounding the film with real stakes.

The PA brought the gummies for them and told me the gummies werenot for me, she explained.

The crowd roared and she smiled a real star, even without the gummies.

This story has been edited to reflect that Joan Chens character name is May Chen.

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