Although some might query his priorities, when it comes the delivery of his fifth baby and doing publicity for his blockbuster musical “Wicked,” Jon M. Chu can deal with two issues on the similar time. This previous Saturday, forward of the movie‘s Los Angeles premiere and amidst multiple guild and press screenings going on around town, Chu had another item added to his to-do list when his wife, Kristen Hodges, woke him to share that her water had just broken. At one such screening held at the Director’s Guild of America, Chu relayed the story to the gang and moderator, Academy Award-nominated director Lee Daniels.
“Honestly, that is true, today’s our premiere in Downtown, so I had my whole family come and they’re all at this hotel, [my wife’s] family and my family. And we’re about to have our fifth child and we’ve done press for the last two days,” stated Chu. “Last night we were here at like 10 o’clock at night, 10:30. At three in the morning, I get a little nudge from my wife. She’s like, I think my water broke. I mean, this is like a romantic comedy of the nineties or something where, like, I have my tux that’s all custom designed for the night. The whole cast is there. I can see the red carpet outside my window. I’m like, this is so beautiful. I waited years and years for this.”
Regardless of his spouse being in the hospital supply room on the time, ready to present delivery, Chu knew Daniels had travelled all the way in which from Palm Springs to average this Q&A and couldn’t miss out on talking with him. Fortunately, Chu was capable of finding a brief window to depart his spouse with out lacking any main second.
“I’m there at the hospital and that’s when I was like, I think we don’t know what’s gonna happen and when we’re there and I felt so bad because for Lee to do this is just such an honor and I know how much time it takes,” stated Chu. “So then I asked her — she’s actually in early labor is what they told me about an hour and a half ago and we have to give her some medicine that lasts about three hours, so she can’t give birth for three hours — I was like, that’s a great window right now, babe, I’ll be right back. Is that ok? So I just put on whatever I have. I have my hospital sticker, I’m here.”
Although he was in a position to be part of the gang on the DGA for a couple of minutes, sadly Chu needed to miss the “Wicked” premiere. He did, nonetheless, ship in a video message from the hospital that performed in entrance of the viewers on the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion earlier than the movie started. Chu additionally managed to point out up afterwards, seemingly after his and Hodge’s daughter, Stevie Sky Chu, had been born.
Extra reporting by Alison Foreman.
Common Footage releases “Wicked” in theaters on November 22.
