\n\t\u201cIt somehow feels like picking up something from my childhood,\u201d Yeh says. \u201cIt feels exciting rather than very challenging. I can finally demonstrate the things I have in my toolbox.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tIn Happily Ever After, Yeh plays Kitty, one of the two sisters at the center of this family-focused film. Kitty\u2019s the younger sister and the ideal daughter \u2014 depending on your definition \u2014 alongside Xuan Chen\u2019s Claire. When a stray cat wanders into their lives, long-dormant tensions bubble up to the surface. The film explores the burden of expectations that families can place on young people.<\/p>\n
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\t\t\t\t\tYeh as Kitty in \u2018Happily Ever After.\u2019<\/p>\n
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\n\tWhen Yeh first read the script, she wasn\u2019t sure which of the two roles was intended for her but felt that Kitty\u2019s personality was quite the opposite of her own \u2014 a prospect she found exciting. She wanted, she says, a bit of challenge and more room to play with.<\/p>\n
\n\tYeh initially met up with Roan and a producer to discuss the film, where the director shared the story of her family and her sisters. Sisterhood sits at the center of the film and Yeh, herself the middle child of three sisters, found it easy to relate the material to her own life.<\/p>\n
\n\tThroughout the process of making Happily Ever After, Yeh not only drew from her own family experiences \u2014 she also came to see her own family in a new light. \u201cI sometimes find that I\u2019m not used to straightforwardly facing my own family issues,\u201d she says. \u201cSometimes I just move forward through life. During this process, I saw the different perspectives of the different sisters, the younger one and the elder one, and also myself, my own perspective.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tThe new outlook is a continuation of her ever-evolving view of her own sisters as she\u2019s grown into adulthood. She\u2019s started to see her sisters as their own individuals, outside of her own perspective as merely younger and older sisters. It\u2019s an observation she likely wouldn\u2019t have made in her younger days: \u201cIn the past, when I was still a student, I think I was more egocentric and more of a rebel.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tYeh went to work in Korea a decade ago, still a teenager, having trained for two years before she made her K-pop debut. She says working at such a young age made her grow up faster than her sisters. \u201cSometimes when I go back to see my elder sister, I sometimes feel like she\u2019s kind of childish,\u201d she says, lovingly taking a jab at her older sibling. \u201cGrowing up brought me a different way of perceiving my sisters.\u201d<\/p>\n