{"id":3122,"date":"2018-01-23T20:00:26","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T20:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2018\/01\/23\/spotlight-diana-bang\/"},"modified":"2018-01-23T20:00:26","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T20:00:26","slug":"spotlight-diana-bang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2018\/01\/23\/spotlight-diana-bang\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight: Diana Bang"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kee Chang\/ Anthem Magazine<\/em><\/p>\n

In 2018, Bang is exploring something quite different. Jason James\u2019s Entanglement<\/em> shadows Ben (Thomas Middleditch), a severely depressed individual. How depressed is he? The film begins with a montage of his failed suicide attempts. Fortunately, he meets Hanna (Jess Weixler) at the pharmacy while picking up his medication, and she slowly drags him out of his funk. Here\u2019s the kicker, though: Hanna was at one point almost his sister. Thinking they couldn\u2019t conceive, Ben\u2019s parents had adopted an infant girl. But with Ben suddenly entering the picture, the adoption agency took Hanna back. If this all sounds a bit crazy, so thinks Tabby (Bang), Ben\u2019s friendly neighbor who makes up most of his support circle and has serious reservations about his new dream girl.<\/p>\n

Entanglement<\/em> opens in select theaters, and via On Demand and Digital HD on February 9.<\/p>\n

I checked out an interview with your director, Jason James, where he described Hanna as the chaos factor in Ben\u2019s life in relation to Tabby\u2019s control, which is grounding him in reality. I thought that was an interesting angle. The film is very conceptual in that way.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yeah, and I think the script changed a little bit. Initially when I grasped it, it had much more of that chaos and control element. I think some of that was stripped from the final film. I don\u2019t remember having an explicit conversation with Jason about that, but that was quite evident in the script.<\/p>\n

The film\u2019s portrayal of Tabby and Ben\u2019s rough and tumble friendship is affecting. We often neglect friendships when we\u2019re too busy working on our own personal details.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I do think it\u2019s about friendship. I think it\u2019s about self-love as well. Ben\u2019s trying to figure out the journey that he\u2019s on. When you talk about this chaos and control aspect, it\u2019s also the fantasy version of himself versus a more realistic version. That\u2019s sort of how I interpreted the characters of Hanna and Tabby. It\u2019s about coming to terms with the different versions of himself and finally accepting himself in the end. I think\u2019s that\u2019s a universal story. It\u2019s the journey that a lot of us travel sometime in our lives, or throughout our lives. With Tabby specifically, the cool thing about this particular film was that I got to play a girl who owns her own clothing shop. Most of the roles prior to this in which I had a substantial role, I had to have some kind of an Asian accent, or I was asked to. I guess what I related to here is that she\u2019s a fuller character than anything else I ever played. In that way, it was definitely a nice thing to inhabit. And in talking about control, you definitely want to control the outcome of your life sometimes. I could definitely relate to that, for sure.<\/p>\n

The film doesn\u2019t fixate on Tabby\u2019s Asianness at all. The character you play is devoid of stereotypes, which is always thrilling. It\u2019s a clear contrast to your North Korean propaganda minister role in The Interview<\/em>, which is obviously a very different brand of comedy. It\u2019s farce in many way. Did you find your experience on these two movies vastly different?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Honestly, they weren\u2019t that different. It\u2019s interesting because I come from sketch comedy and that\u2019s my background. Obviously, I try to make my characters as human as possible, but sometimes I push it, too. Initially, when I was doing Entanglement<\/em>, it was funny because Jason would sometimes come up to me like, \u201cYou know, just a little less.\u201d [Laughs<\/em>] \u201cJust ground her a bit. Less.\u201d Eventually, I figured it out and got the tone of it. But at the very beginning, it was sort of like Jason was trying to be as polite as possible: \u201cNot so much energy. Tone it down.\u201d In terms of the environments, they were pretty similar. I mean, one might have better catering or something like that, but overall, I found them to be quite similar. I guess with indie projects there are less luxuries, you know? But that stuff doesn\u2019t really matter. That\u2019s not important. For me, getting to be one of the leads or getting to be in a supporting role in both of those movies was nice. I was able to have more of a say and feel like I was part of the filmmaking process, more than just dropping in and being a barista with a few lines. But yeah, I felt like they were quite similar to be honest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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