Lucy Liu has been in Rosemead for years. No, she hasn’t taken up residence in the SoCal city – but the community within L.A. County’s San Gabriel Valley has left an indelible mark on the actor as both the setting and title of her latest film, “Rosemead,” a passion project that’s taken hold of her for over seven years.

The film (which was actually produced largely in New York) dramatizes the tragic true story revealed in a 2017 Los Angeles Times article by Frank Shyong about a terminally ill mother and her schizophrenic teenage son.

“I don’t know that anyone really would believe it if it wasn’t a true story,” Liu, who also serves as a producer, tells Variety over Zoom ahead of the “Rosemead” world premiere at the Tribeca Festival on Friday. “It resonates with me because we’re mis

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