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I make movies that I enjoy making and tell stories that I want to see, so it’s hard. You never reverse engineer those things and go, “What would appeal to this or that?” Even if I tried, I don’t know. I’m an all-American kid.

Jon M. Chu

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Jon M. Chu
Age: 45
Born: 1979
Born: November 2
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Jonathan Murray Chu
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