Jake Choi in production for upcoming comedy!

Jake Choi came out as sexually fluid in an interview in September 2018 during an interview with Very Good Light while promoting ABC’s “Single Parents.” Choi played Miggy Park, a single father, and proved that everybody loves a daddy. This sexual declaration, coming out as sexually fluid, was interesting since the demographic he mostly appealed to in the show were ciswomen. He pretty much told the world that anybody has a chance, and the gays were ready.

The gaysians might know Jake Choi for his role as Ryan Fu in the movie Front Cover (2015), where he played a fashion stylist who fell for fell for his most challenging client, a renowned foreign actor played by James Chen, who of course, just so happens to be in the closet. The film is very similar to watching a BL in terms of cinematic quality and does satiate the craving to watch a gay AAPI love story in a quick go without having to watch several short videos on YouTube or having to do the whole VPN thing. Yes, the plot is overall predictable, but aren’t most romances like that anyway?

Since “Single Parents” ended in 2020, Choi has been consistent with landing a few gigs every year, including an episode of American Horror Stories. The recent development of his being in production comes from an article with Deadline giving details on the comedy, titled “Reunion.” Ludi Lin (Mortal Kombat, Black Mirror – Striking Vipers, such a scandalous episode) was also announced to be a part of the project. The film is written by John W. Kim, a first-generation Korean American raised in the Bay Area of California, and loglines the project as follows:

“A down and out man seeking to turn his life around goes to his twenty-year reunion to help jumpstart his life, only to get lost and find himself mistaken for the most successful man at the wrong reunion!“

The Deadline article slightly expanded on the blurb found on Kim’s website,

“Asian American funeral home worker who goes to his high school reunion with the hope of jump-starting his life, only to be mistaken for the most successful alumnus of another school – a mysterious Asian billionaire whom no one has seen since graduation.“

We love the clarification. Let everybody know that Asians can be on both ends of the spectrum of academia. The specification brings to light that Choi and Lin are the characters noted in the logline – Choi will most likely play the funeral home worker, and Lin will play the billionaire. It makes the most sense given Choi’s past roles, and Lin just gives Crazy Rich Asians vibes. Jake certainly does have his comedic chops from his role in “Single Parents,” and we’re looking forward to seeing him in this project. John Kim told Deadline,

“Reunion speaks to anyone who has ever been invisible in a room, unseen by those around us, the comedy and pathos coming from being misidentified, even for a moment, while imagining what might have been and the road not taken.”

And from a gay, AAPI perspective, this film sounds like something I would resonate with.