John Cho, Mia Isaacs and ‘Don’t Make Me Go’ Director on Telling a Coming of Age Story Through the Lens of Single Parenthood

Their relationship is charming, funny and real — an honest, empathetic and authentic look at what it means to raise your child alone.

The film is a beautiful, universal examination of single-parent families, but there was one moment where this being an Asian family with a biracial child at its center became explicitly noticeable — when Wally and Max talk about putting her in African dance classes. Can you talk about the approach to casting and how it informed the family we see on screen? Actually, that was something that my mother did. It’s based off of that.

This film doesn’t shy away from the complicated, difficult realities of a parent choosing to leave their child. What did you want audiences to take away about Wally’s mom’s choices and what led to them? That’s a very tough part of the movie. I also think it’s rare to see that onscreen where the mother is the one who leaves, so to me, I was excited by that aspect of the story feeling different.

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