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Daniel Wu
Chinese
Actor
Born:
Sep 30
,
1974
First
Me
People
Think
Time
You
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I was a hyperactive kid, and it took awhile for me to find the right teacher. My master was a Shaolin kung fu teacher, but he also taught tai chi, Chinese medicine, brush painting - he was adept at all facets of Chinese culture.
Daniel Wu
Teacher
Me
Culture
Master
Chi
Painting
Medicine
Took
Adept
Kid
Find
Facets
Brush
He
Also
Kung
Kung Fu
Taught
Chinese
Chinese Culture
Right
Awhile
In my 20s, it was easy. In your 40s, it's a lot more challenging. You have to look at it like you're an actor, but you're also a professional athlete. You have to train.
Daniel Wu
You
Easy
Athlete
More
Like
Look
Also
Lot
Train
Your
Professional
Professional Athlete
Actor
Challenging
To do eleven fights in four months is pretty crazy. In some shows that we do in Asia, there are three or four fights over a six-month period, so you have time to recover and gain your stamina.
Daniel Wu
Time
Crazy
You
Three
Months
Some
Pretty
Recover
Over
Period
Gain
Asia
Stamina
Your
Fights
Shows
Eleven
Four
There's a huge interest in the Chinese market, and Hollywood has a huge interest in the Chinese market with films like 'Transformers' making more money over there than here.
Daniel Wu
Money
Films
Market
More
Over
Like
Making
Huge
Than
Interest
Transformers
Chinese
Hollywood
Here
I've built a career in Asia for 18 years, playing roles that had nothing to do with my race because everybody's Chinese in the films.
Daniel Wu
Nothing
Films
Everybody
Had
Because
Built
Years
Roles
Chinese
Race
Asia
Playing
Career
Bruce Lee was the first star I idolized. Growing up as a Chinese American, there weren't many people like me on the big screen.
Daniel Wu
Me
People
First
Big
Bruce
Bruce Lee
Like
Idolized
Were
Lee
Up
American
Big Screen
Screen
Chinese
Many
Star
Growing
Growing Up
In 'The Matrix,' you see the fight between Keanu Reeves and Lawrence Fishburne. It's an amazing fight. But I know that they've rehearsed it for months beforehand. Because in some of the moves you can see them anticipating blocks before they actually happen.
Daniel Wu
You
Fight
Amazing
Before
Months
See
Some
Lawrence
Between
Know
Because
Blocks
Beforehand
Matrix
Anticipating
Moves
Happen
Them
Rehearsed
Actually
Part of the Hong Kong style is the fact that a lot of the performers can perform the moves, and we don't over-rehearse this stuff.
Daniel Wu
Style
Hong Kong
Fact
Part
Perform
Stuff
Performers
Kong
Lot
Moves
We'll see what I do after 'Badlands' to show audiences that I have more in my repertoire besides martial arts.
Daniel Wu
Besides
See
Martial
Martial Arts
More
Audiences
Repertoire
Arts
After
Show
It's not at all my objective to become an Asian-American star.
Daniel Wu
Become
Objective
Asian-American
Star
It was 'Shaolin Temple,' Jet Li's first movie. That was the movie that got me to want to learn martial arts. Then I became a huge Jet Li/Jackie Chan fan after that.
Daniel Wu
Me
First
Jet
Temple
Martial
Martial Arts
Learn
Became
Got
Huge
Arts
Want
Movie
Fan
After
Then
Asian Americans haven't had as many opportunities as other people to build their careers in Hollywood, just because there hasn't been that much of an interest, especially in Asian American males.
Daniel Wu
People
Opportunities
Build
Other
Had
Because
Been
Males
American
Just
Just Because
Interest
Asian
Asian-American
Hollywood
Much
Many
Careers
I've been lucky enough to build a career outside of America, where I got 18 years and over 60 films of experience.
Daniel Wu
Experience
Build
Films
Enough
Outside
Over
Got
Been
Years
America
Where
Lucky
Career
At Diversion, we want to do genres that people are not doing - or, if we're doing genres that people are doing, to do them in a fresh way.
Daniel Wu
People
Way
Diversion
Genres
Fresh
Doing
Want
Them
What we did with 'Tai Chi Zero' and 'Tai Chi Hero' was break down the martial-arts genre and make it younger, hipper, and kind of cooler for the younger kids.
Daniel Wu
Hero
Chi
Down
Kids
Kind
Genre
Make
Did
Break
Younger
Cooler
Zero
After working on 'Europa,' I found it incredibly freeing to speak English in a film, so it kind of sparked an interest in me as an artist to improve my acting.
Daniel Wu
Me
Speak
Incredibly
Kind
Freeing
Improve
Artist
After
Interest
Working
Acting
English
Film
Found
I think growing up in the States and Australia, we were exposed to a lot of different types of things. I used to go to Gilman to watch punk shows, and it's a complete different environment - you were inspired by so many different things, whereas in Hong Kong, there is nothing for anybody.
Daniel Wu
You
Punk
Nothing
Think
Hong Kong
Types
Complete
States
Inspired
Environment
Kong
Go
Were
Lot
Up
Australia
So Many Different Things
Anybody
Different
Whereas
Used
Many
Exposed
Shows
Different Things
Growing
Different Types
Growing Up
Things
Watch
What I miss from the States, I guess, is going to museums and to see small rock shows in small bars. We don't have that in Hong Kong. Unfortunately because the property market is so high, all rent is so expensive, they can't afford to have a rock music bar because those things don't make a lot of money, and they're paying a lot of rent.
Daniel Wu
Music
Property
Money
Hong Kong
Guess
Market
States
Those
High
See
Small
Miss
Make
Because
Kong
Rock
Rent
Rock Music
Lot
Afford
Going
Expensive
Unfortunately
Bar
Paying
Bars
Shows
Things
Museums
My sister Gloria asked me to try modeling.
Daniel Wu
Me
Try
Sister
Modeling
Asked
You've gotta understand camera angles, camera movement - a kick that may not be very powerful may look very powerful from a certain angle.
Daniel Wu
You
Kick
Angle
Angles
Powerful
Look
Understand
Gotta
Camera
Very
May
Movement
Certain
I came from doing Wushu and other martial arts, and then I got into movies, and I had to learn that as well - the language of martial arts movie fighting. It's a different thing; it's a different kind of logic.
Daniel Wu
Language
Fighting
Other
Kind
Logic
Martial
Martial Arts
Had
Well
Learn
Got
Doing
Came
Arts
Different
Movie
Movies
Different Kind
Then
Different Thing
Thing
The two don't necessarily translate, especially if you're a prize fighter: you've fought all your life, you've fought all these fights, and now you're trying to do a movie. You see that happen a lot - a lot of professional fighters don't necessarily make it so well into the movie world.
Daniel Wu
Life
You
World
Fighter
All Your Life
See
Well
Make
Lot
Prize
Trying
Movie
Happen
Translate
Your
Fighters
Fights
Professional
Fought
Now
Necessarily
Two
For Cantonese - because there's no standardized pinyin system - I have to have someone read it to me, and then I rewrite the whole script in my own Cantonese pinyin.
Daniel Wu
Me
Own
System
Someone
My Own
Read
Because
Rewrite
Script
Then
Standardized
Whole
I really dislike the fact that Asian males are constantly emasculated, whether it's American TV or films. You see it all the time, and it's so weird that they don't see sexuality in Asian men.
Daniel Wu
Time
You
Men
Films
TV
Sexuality
Constantly
See
Fact
Weird
Males
American
Whether
Dislike
Asian
Really
For most normal people, deadlifts stretch your hamstrings, but in my case, it tightened them, because I was already very flexible.
Daniel Wu
People
Case
Most
Because
Tightened
Normal
Normal People
Very
Them
Your
Flexible
Stretch
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