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We all have a coming-out story: the porn stash your father found that forced your hand, the tearful family gathering where you just couldn’t keep it in anymore, the tender moment shared with a confidant over the phone. But director Andrew Ahn’s exit from the closet is a decidedly different one—he did it by casting his conservative Christian Korean-American parents in his queer short, “Dol (First Birthday).”
“Dol” follows Nick, a first-generation gay Korean-American who goes to his nephew’s traditional first birthday party, leaving his live-in boyfriend at home.
Ahn’s asked his real parents to play Nick’s parents in the short, but they didn’t realize he was identifying with the main character and trying to tell them he was gay. In this exclusive interview, Ahn discusses breaking the news and how they reacted.
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JEREMIE
I guess that ultimately the only thing that matters is how he and his parents feel about how he did it. But, it seems to me that in a way he was deceiving them even in the way he told them. Why have them participate in something without allowing them to fully understand what it was? Again, however the three of them see it is the most important thing.
Drew P. Weiner
well i guess its alot better than having your parents accidentally watching a gay porno with you in it.
unclemike
Annyonghi haseyo, handsome!
JEREMIE
@Drew P. Weiner: That would probably mean that they are gay too.