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Daniel Wu
Daniel Wu
Chinese Actor
Born: Sep 30, 1974
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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We'll see what I do after 'Badlands' to show audiences that I have more in my repertoire besides martial arts. Daniel Wu
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It's not at all my objective to become an Asian-American star. Daniel Wu
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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My sister Gloria asked me to try modeling. Daniel Wu
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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For most normal people, deadlifts stretch your hamstrings, but in my case, it tightened them, because I was already very flexible. Daniel Wu
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