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‘Wicked’ Director Jon M. Chu Tells Students to ‘Follow Your Curiosity’
['Lynn Juliano']
CSUF News
Filmmaker Jon M. Chu (Courtesy of Associated Students Inc.)When filmmaker Jon M. Chu’s manager sent him a script for a sequel to a dance movie, straight to DVD, he hesitated.
The film, “Step Up 2: The Streets,” is “what started my career,” Chu told students during a Beyond the Conversation event presented by Cal State Fullerton’s Associated Students Inc. and the Division of Student Affairs and Strategic Enrollment Management.
From making home videos as a child to directing Hollywood blockbusters, Chu has built a career on telling unforgettable stories.
This is about us: It’s a reexamination of the American dream and the idea that the Yellow Brick Road was made for all of us.”Rather than follow a specific dream, Chu advised students to follow their curiosity.
So do the scary thing.”Mercedes Avila, cinema and television arts major (Courtesy of Associated Students Inc.)A Dream for a Cinema and Television Arts MajorMercedes Avila, a CSUF cinema and television arts major, never dreamed she would be on stage with such a notable filmmaker.
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