To celebrate the release of Don’t Make Me Go, which is now streaming on Amazon Prime Video, we sat down with its incredible cast and director to find out all it.
When single father Max (John Cho) discovers he has a terminal disease, he decides to try and cram all the years of love and support he will miss with his teenage daughter Wally (Mia Isaac) into the time he has left with her. With the promise of long-awaited driving lessons, he convinces Wally to accompany him on a road trip from California to New Orleans for his 20th college reunion, where he secretly hopes to reunite her with her mother who left them long ago. A wholly original, emotional, and surprising journey, Don’t Make Me Go explores the unbreakable, eternal bond between a father and daughter from both sides of the generational divide with heart and humor along for the ride.
Chatting to stars John Cho and Mia Isaac, who play the father/daughter duo, they discuss the lure of the project, how they broke the ice when they first met, how they feel about road trips and why the world is ready for Cho to release his own album after his brilliant singing in the film. We also chat to Hannah Marks, the film director, about the challenges of the film, finding originality in the road-trip sub-genre, casting Cho and Isaac and why she feels she has hit her stride as a still-fledgling director.
You can watch the interviews below:
Don’t Make Me Go is now streaming on Amazon Prime Video.
