Watch: 'Joy Ride' Star Says Movie Jettisoned Same-Sex Romance Subplot

"Joy Ride" star Stephanie Hsu opened up about the movie in an interview captured on video, including that her character, Kat, was initially meant to have a same-sex love interest in another female character, Lolo, played by Sherry Cola. But by the time the film was in its final form, that romance had been left on the cutting room floor.

Hsu's revelation came about as the actor – together with castmate Sabrina Wu – chatted with Collider's Perri Nemiroff.

"There's so much good in 'Joy Ride,'" Nemiroff wrote in comments about the interview, "but when you've got a screenplay from ace writers like Cherry Chevapravatdumrong and Teresa Hsiao and a lead ensemble loaded with hugely talented comedic actors like Stephanie Hsu, Sabrina Wu, Sherry Cola, and Ashley Park, there's bound to be some gems that just can't be squeezed into the final cut."

As is too often the case, when it came time to cut material, it was the queer content that went – although a few same-sex sparks remain, according to Wu, who says in the video that "there was so much electric magic happening between Stephanie and Sherry" during the filming of a slapping scene that, Wu noted, got "edited down to a very quick thing..."

"It was a little gay," Wu added. "It was awesome."

"There's a whole gay track between Sherry's character and my character that kind of got edited," Hsu says, as Nemiroff gasps in surprised delight.

Hsu also said that that storyline will now be "saved for the sequel. But," Hsu went on to say of the excision, "Sherry's livid about it!"

"Joy Ride clocks in at rip-roaring 95 minutes, and makes the most of every single second of screen time," Nemiroff noted in the article. "But after 95 minutes of falling hard for this group of characters, it's hard not to want more and, perhaps, to wish that that storyline had made it into the final film."

The film "[f]ollows four Chinese-American friends as they bond and discover the truth of what it means to know and love who you are, while they travel through China in search of one of their birth mothers," the film's IMDb page says.

Check out the conversation below (note: Hsu's revelation comes at the 2:17 mark).