07-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Straits Times
Breaking barriers in Hollywood: Producer Janice Chua taps her roots for her career
In March, Janice Chua co-founded Third Culture Content as a production company based in Seoul and Los Angeles focused on bridging Eastern and Western storytelling. PHOTO: COURTESY OF JANICE CHUA
SINGAPORE – Janice Chua calls the filming of the hit romantic comedy film Crazy Rich Asians (2018) – on which she served as associate producer – in Singapore and Malaysia in 2017 her 'baptism of Hollywood fire'.
'I wasn't trained in the Hollywood producing system. I came fresh from China,' the 37-year-old says.
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