Joy Ride is a cleverly disguised search for belonging: culturally, romantically, within friendships. “And sometimes that’s just more effective in reaching people when they least expect it.” “What comedy does is you can present something that is actually stealthily profound and moving and heartbreaking without leading with it,” Lim says. But this time, it has shifted its weight toward authenticity. This summer, between Joy Ride, the Jennifer Lawrence vehicle No Hard Feelings, and Bottoms, from Shiva Baby duo Emma Seligman and Rachel Sennott, the bawdy flavor of the 2010s is back.
“We don’t have to talk about cultural relevance and representation and Asian female sexuality, we just have the faces of our leads onscreen, and that does a lot.” “The medium is the message,” says Lim, who also co-wrote Crazy Rich Asians and Raya and the Last Dragon. And Audrey’s college friend, soap opera star Kat ( Everything Everywhere All At Once breakout Stephanie Hsu, as “the sorta famous one”), loves a grand adventure. Lolo’s cousin Deadeye (stand-up comic Sabrina Wu, playing “the chaotic one”) joins in to meet up with their online K-pop friends.
Her childhood friend Lolo ( Good Trouble’s Sherry Cola, as “the mouthy one”), tags along to translate. The movie follows Audrey ( Emily in Paris’ Ashley Park, playing “ the responsible one”) back to her motherland, China, on a business trip to close a critical deal. Joy Ride is deliciously filthy, but buried beneath the dirty jokes is a genuine story of friendship, identity, and belonging. Read more: The 30 Most Anticipated Movies of Summer 2023 For the movie, it’s messy comedy and raw raunch. For the song, that something is rap lyrics and splashy visuals. “WAP” is a microcosm of the themes of the movie, which premiered to raves at SXSW in March and hits theaters July 7: It rolls a message of female empowerment and owning one’s sexuality into something else. Our parts are not always just there to be sexy.” But women’s anatomy has always been sexualized. “Jason Segel whips it out in Forgetting Sarah Marshall and you laugh. “Dicks have always been comedy somehow,” says the film’s co-writer, Teresa Hsiao. It’s a larger-than-life scene that ends in a flash of female frontal nudity, a rarity in film but especially in the context of the genre. So naturally, they disguise themselves as the brand-new (fictional) K-pop group Brownie Tuesday and launch into a yassified version of the modern rap classic, widely considered one of the most sexually explicit songs of our era. To set the scene: The summer comedy’s four main characters are stuck in China, trying to get to South Korea despite their stolen passports. Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion got back to Joy Ride director Adele Lim faster than she thought possible: Yes, she had permission to include their song “ WAP” in her directorial debut.
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