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On Story
A Conversation with Lulu Wang
Season 10
Episode 2
This week on On Story, Lulu Wang, writer/director of The Farewell, discusses writing and directing the autobiographical story of her family’s decision to lie to her grandmother about her terminal illness and instead plan a wedding to say their final goodbyes.
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