K-Pop Artist Yulee Choi On Making Jump To Big Screen In ‘Food Truck: Stolen Love … And Moo Deng’ – Deadline Screening Series

Thailand local-language movie Food Truck: Stolen Love ... and Moo Deng reminds you of the family movies that Disney use to make, think The Shaggy D.A. and Beverly Hills Chihuahua. The movie comes from filmmakers Witthaya Thongyooyong and Chaleumpol Tikumpornteerawong, with Tony Sarandos a consulting producer. Deadline held a screening Wednesday night at the Culver Theatre with the movie’s star, songwriter and composer Yulee Choi in attendance. Choi is a force in the K-pop industry, both a songwriter, performer and manager of bands under her SRP Entertainment; the multi-hyphenate also launched the girl band Rocking Doll. In the video above, she tells us about making the segue to her first feature film role. Food Truck: Stolen Love ... and Moo Deng follows Mamiew, (Mario Maurer), a TikToker famous for ASMR livestreams, who is caught completely off guard when his best friends, Jake (Jack FanChan), a food truck owner, and Bobby, show him a FaceTime of a Korean boy named Sarang. Jake and Bobby believe that Sarang is Mamiew’s son, a child he had with his ex-girlfriend Me Ree (Choi). What none of them realize, however, is that Sarang has secretly stowed away in the back of Jake’s food truck. Meanwhile, Me Ree panics after discovering Sarang has gone missing and immediately reports it to the police, turning Mamiew, Jake and Bobby into prime suspects in a child abduction case. As the trio scrambles to return Sarang to Me Ree, the boy pleads with them to make one stop: He wants to visit the zoo to see the famous hippo Moo Deng just once in his life. As Choi details above, the famed baby hippo sort of co-stars. Choi wrote the song “After the Rain” for the movie, which she described as “overcoming certain obstacles. When the rain stops falling, the sky becomes clear and beautiful. I think life is the same way.” For her, Food Truck is about “unconditional love; mother’s arms the warmest ... and a source of strength.” Food Truck: Stolen Love ... and Moo Deng opened in theaters in Thailand last August and is currently making its way to the U.S. for distribution.

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