{"id":2290933,"date":"2026-02-20T12:53:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T12:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2290933"},"modified":"2026-02-20T12:53:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T12:53:11","slug":"gemma-chan-on-the-small-miracle-of-making-josephine-and-why-she-connected-to-the-film-emotionally-it-really-hit-a-raw-nerve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/gemma-chan-on-the-small-miracle-of-making-josephine-and-why-she-connected-to-the-film-emotionally-it-really-hit-a-raw-nerve\/","title":{"rendered":"Gemma Chan on the \u2018Small Miracle\u2019 of Making \u2018Josephine\u2019 and Why She Connected to the Film Emotionally: \u2018It Really Hit a Raw Nerve\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For Gemma Chan<\/a>, making \u201cJosephine<\/a>\u201d was deeply personal.<\/p>\n

The British actress, best known for her work in \u201cCrazy Rich Asians<\/a>\u201d and \u201cEternals<\/a>,\u201d stars in Beth de Ara\u00fajo<\/a>\u2019s buzzy drama as Claire, a mother attempting to help her 8-year-old daughter Josephine<\/a> (played by newcomer Mason Reeves<\/a>) after she witnesses a brutal rape in a San Francisco park. A court case hinges on the young girl\u2019s testimony, and Claire and her husband Damien<\/a> (a strikingly vulnerable Channing Tatum<\/a>) struggle with whether they should allow their daughter to take the stand.<\/p>\n

The story behind \u201cJosephine<\/a>\u201d \u2014 which premiered at Sundance last month and became one of its biggest breakouts, winning the grand jury prize and audience award \u2014 is based on a similar experience de Ara\u00fajo had as a child. This resonated strongly with Chan, who in 2012 witnessed a fatal stabbing in London and bravely decided to testify in court.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For Gemma Chan, making \u201cJosephine\u201d was deeply personal. The British actress, best known for her work in \u201cCrazy Rich Asians\u201d and \u201cEternals,\u201d stars in Beth de Ara\u00fajo\u2019s buzzy drama as Claire, a mother attempting to help her 8-year-old daughter Josephine (played by newcomer Mason Reeves) after she witnesses a brutal rape in a San Francisco […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2290934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2290933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Gemma-Chan-on-the-\u2018Small-Miracle-of-Making-\u2018Josephine-and.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2290933"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2290935,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290933\/revisions\/2290935"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2290934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2290933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2290933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2290933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}