OLIVIA CHENG Exclusive Audio Interview Bruce Lee’s legacy and WARRIOR Season 1 + 2
OLIVIA CHENG talks about how she came to be cast as the lead character Ah Toy in the outstanding WARRIOR Series. How did she step into the Bruce Lee concept show? Did Shannon Lee give her any ideas or guidance about her father Bruce Lee? How did she incorporate Martial Arts and Action into her Acting? What is her martial arts background? How did she progress her character from Season 1 to 2? Her unrelenting, hard, fighting style holds true menace. How did she project character and martial ability through the sword? How did she feel about the protrayal of Asian Americans and women in the series? And much more…
WARRIOR is a gritty, action-packed crime drama set during the brutal Tong Wars of San Francisco’s Chinatown in the second half of the 19th century. The series follows Ah Sahm (Andrew Koji), a martial arts prodigy who emigrates from China to San Francisco under mysterious circumstances. After proving his worth as a fighter, Ah Sahm becomes a hatchet man for the Hope Wei, one of Chinatown’s most powerful tongs (Chinese organized crime family).Befriended by Wang Chao (Hoon Lee), a fixer and profiteer in Chinatown, Ah Sahm is taken under the wing of Young Jun (Jason Tobin), the hard-partying son of the Hop Wei’s leader, Father Jun (Perry Yung), who is facing an imminent opium war with a rival tong. As he is indoctrinated in the rules of Chinatown gangs, Ah Sahm wins the confidence of a canny brothel madam, AH TOY (Olivia Cheng), revealing to her the true intentions of his journey to America.
The drama series WARRIOR appears exclusively on CINEMAX. Filmed in Cape Town, South Africa, the show is based on the writings of martial arts legend Bruce Lee and is created and executive produced by Jonathan Tropper (CINEMAX’s “Banshee”) under Tropper Ink Productions, executive produced by Justin Lin (director of “Fast & Furious 6”) for Perfect Storm Entertainment and executive produced by Shannon Lee for Bruce Lee Entertainment.
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