I found a script for the first movie online that had a few differences from the movie. Walter was called Pham Vam and a there was a cut character called Viola, an old lady who lived in Perfection. Why were these changes made?

The Perfection store owner was originally Vietnamese.  We chose that because, way back when we wrote the original, there were a lot of Vietnamese immigrants coming to the US. But when we got the chance to cast Victor Wong, we jumped at it, and he asked if the character could be changed to Chinese, which we were happy to do.  Amusingly, we don’t remember the character of Viola, but the question has come up enough that apparently there are early versions of the script  in which she appears.   We had to cut many things from the original script in order to get our budget approved (and even cut the character of Mindy for a short time), so that’s when Viola would have been taken out.

I found a script for the first movie online that had a few differences from the movie. Walter was called Pham Vam and a there was a cut character called Viola, an old lady who lived in Perfection. Why were these changes made? was last modified: February 16th, 2023 by S.S. Wilson

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