Quick & Livid Director Justin Lin Takes Han’s Snacking Very Significantly

“It simply cannot be a daily snack,” Justin Lin informed Collider in an interview in 2021, forward of the Blu-ray launch of F9. “And speaking to Sung, I feel they needed to go — like, they needed to import these crackers, you realize? And I used to be adamant, I used to be like, ‘We can not faux Han’s snacks. It would not matter.'” For this reason you by no means see Han consuming Cheez-its or M&Ms; he is all the time munching on one thing you would not sometimes discover in an American merchandising machine. For a personality who hails from Japan, he is acquired Japanese snacks like Kameda Seika Kakinotane Rice Crackers or Meiji Hey Panda Cookies. Lin added: “Having labored with Sung, like even the best way he tosses it, you realize, it needed to be pure. So I keep in mind that was a giant factor.”

Whereas all of this may occasionally sound ridiculous, it is a part of the authenticity that helps promote the character. Whereas most viewers could not discover, you possibly can count on Japanese audiences to query what is going on on. It is a comparable type of consideration to element that impressed William Hartnell, the primary Physician on “Physician Who,” to determine the precise perform of each button and lever on the TARDIS management panel and maintain it constant (by way of “About Time”). Eager-eyed viewers might need picked up on the truth that he was urgent buttons at random, and it might’ve made the present really feel rather less genuine.

As cartoonish and absurd as “Quick & Livid” has gotten through the years — within the newest entry, they ended up in house — the franchise has all the time appeared to grasp that in terms of the little issues that make a personality appear actual, being genuine and constant remains to be essential.