![]() In the book, Astrid discovers a text that implies Michael’s having an affair, though it turns out he was only staging an affair to drive them apart. ![]() ![]() In both the book and the movie, Nick’s impossibly glamorous cousin Astrid (played by the impossibly glamorous Gemma Chan) is navigating a failing marriage with her husband, Michael Teo, a former military man who feels emasculated by her wealth. Here’s your guide to what changed along the way. ![]() Essentially, the book is a social satire with romance the movie is more of a rom-com with social satire. Because a two-hour movie can’t contain everything that a novel describes, the movie does cut or otherwise simplify a lot of the book’s secondary story lines, focusing in on Rachel and Nick’s romance, which gets a lot more, well, cinematic. The protagonist Rachel Chu, an American-born NYU professor, wasn’t turned white, as s ome producers initially suggested, and her boyfriend Nick Young’s crazy-rich extended family acts in pretty much the same way that they do in the book series. Gemma Chan as Astrid in Crazy Rich Asians.Ĭonsidering how rarely Hollywood green-lights movies with Asian casts, what’s remarkable about Crazy Rich Asians is really how little changed between Kevin Kwan’s book and the movie. ![]()
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