Back in 2021, Japanese Breakfast mastermind Michelle Zauner published her memoir Crying In H Mart, about losing her mother and connecting with her mother’s Korean culture. The book proved to be a tremendous critical favorite and a surprise bestseller, and a film adaptation was announced a few months after the book came out. Zauner wrote the screenplay, and the director was going to be the White Lotus season-two star Will Sharpe. Earlier this year, though, we learned the news that the Crying In H Mart movie is “on pause,” which sucks. Now, Zauner is saying more about it.
