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Chen Tang talks &#;Warrior,&#; the Chinese Exclusion Act, and Jonathan Tropper
With Cinemax&#;s Warrior drawing their second season to a close, we talked with Chen Tang about his personality &#;Hong&#; in the drama based on both Bruce Lee&#;s script treatment and the Tong Wars of the behind s. The thespian, who most recently appeared as Yao in Disney&#;s live-action Mulan, joined the cast of Warrior this season as a newcomer to the Hop Wei Tong.
On Hong&#;s humor and quirks:
&#;I can&#;t grab full credit for it because the writers gave me so many great zingers and one-liners and all these things. But I will say that the quirks came from me, they were my creation and my meaning. And, I was always very cognizant of, I&#;m entering this world. But, I&#;m also entering this trio of Young Jun and Ah Sahm. And Ah Sahm, he&#;s brooding, he&#;s angry and hurt a lot. I was appreciate , well, how can I balance this triangle? So it was always that sort of humor that I wanted to find.
&#;It also came from character; it was also through the way I see the world. It
Warrior quietly took the society by storm in after the premiere of its first season, so much so that it was renewed almost immediately for a second season which premiered in Series favorite Chen Tang joins us on Actors With Issues to look back at his time on the show, the hopes for a future home as the show dropped on Netflix last month, and discuss the many lessons learned throughout his career working on iconic shows like 30 Rock, Agents of Shield and one of his proudest projects besides Warrior, the live-action adaptation of Disney’s Mulan.
Chen’s first TV role was on an episode of 30 Rock in where he played Jake Hu, a character in a show within the show who is an investigative reporter without a sense of smell and “has to get the story using his eyes, ears, and other senses”. The role didn’t name for him to accomplish with any of the series core cast, but he recalled how he still felt a tad nervous coming on to an established show as a guest star. But an encounter with series star and creator Tina Fey made him perceive welcome and put his nerves at ease.
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'Warrior' star Chen Tang talks 'the most underrated show' on TV right now, queer representation, and losing 18 pounds after 'Mulan'
One of the best TV shows that you're likely not watching right now is "Warrior" on Cinemax.
Based on a '70s treatment from Bruce Lee, the Western follows martial artist prodigy Ah Sahm (Andrew Koji) as he immigrates from China to San Francisco during the late s as tensions between Americans and Chinese immigrants are at an all-time high.
Everything from the cinematography to the realistic fight scenes (for which most of the cast performed their own stunts) to even the catchy title theme are engrossing, making the show an easy binge. Now, in its second season, the series not only explores the conflict between rival Chinatown gangs and the Tong Wars of the late s, but also the discrimination Chinese Americans faced from 's Chinese Exclusion Proceed, which prohibited Chinese people from immigrating to the US for 10 years.
"I call [it] the little show that could. We're small, but mighty," star Chen Tang told Insider.&nb
Actor Chen Tang on Masculinity, “Mulan,” and the Military
The most recognizable Chinese legend in the U.S. has to be Mulan, a tale that has been retold many times. In the story of Mulan, originally a lyrical poem, a woman disguises herself as a man to take the place of her father in the Imperial Army to contest against northern invaders. Disney’s hit animated film “Mulan” () takes the legend and livens it up with some sidekick characters, such as the trio of soldiers, Yao, Ling and Chien Po, who befriend Mulan and include humor to the legendary story.
This September, “Mulan” returns to film in a live actionversion on Disney+. Even though Mushu the imaginary dragon isn’t in the film, the soldier trio is.
Mochi magazine had the pleasure of interviewing actor Chen Tang, who plays Yao, a middle-aged soldier with a inky eye in the animated version. Tang holds previous acting credits in “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” as Agent Kim, but “Mulan” will be his biggest project to date.
Find out how Tang went from a teen growing up in Tennessee to appearing on the big screen