CINSONY (246), Fri, Oct 23 You never know the results from the start. Warcraft. Early Life & Biography. For most normal people, deadlifts stretch your hamstrings, but in my case, it tightened them, because I was already very flexible. To do eleven fights in four months is pretty crazy. I was a hyperactive kid, and it took awhile for me to find the right teacher. [38] Wu posed for the charity photography album SuperStars by Leslie Kee,[39] and performed on rapper Jin's song, "HK Superstar. 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. He has been living in Dublin, Ireland for the past year and attended the Irish Premiere of Tomb Raider (2018) on March 12th in Dublin.
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"[31] Despite some backlash from the media over being intentionally fed false information in the movie[34] about illegal downloads of the band's music,[33] Wu won the best new director award at the 26th Hong Kong Film Awards, an achievement he called "a group effort."[34]. In my 20s, I could just power through stuff and be fine, but now, in your 40s? [4][6], Wu developed an interest in martial arts when he saw Jet Li in The Shaolin Temple and Donnie Yen in Iron Monkey,[1] and consequently began studying wushu at age 11. Most Popular #53189.
I went to Hong Kong in '97 to witness the handover after graduating university, and then I was gonna backpack around Asia and then come back here and look for a job. I really want to take time and be in the moment with my kid for at least the first year. His father had fled to America after the Communist Revolution in China in 1949 and where he met his mother who was still a student. When I was a kid, I loved watching kung fu movies - in San Francisco, we had 'Kung Fu Theater' on TV on Saturdays, and they'd air old Shaw Brothers movies with English dubbing, things like that. [19] Though Night Corridor dealt with "risky" themes,[12] Wu felt he had less reliance on image than many of his pop-star actor peers,[19] and he was nominated for best actor at Taiwan's 40th Golden Horse Film Awards for his effort. My sister Gloria asked me to try modeling. We don't have that in Hong Kong.
He followed this success with roles in a variety of movies including big-budget thriller Purple Storm, art-house production Peony Pavilion and the extremely successful Love Undercover. 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. I think growing up in the States and Australia, we were exposed to a lot of different types of things. [1][13], Despite his inability at the time to speak Hong Kong Cantonese[14] or read Chinese,[15] Wu successfully completed his first movie, Yonfan's Bishonen in 1998. Speaks English, Shanghainese, Cantonese and Mandarin.
It's an amazing fight. 1974. Because in Hong Kong, you're going, like, 90 miles an hour, which is fun when you're young. You just can't sit around and wait for every big-budget film to come along. His father has a Chinese origin while his mother is an American.
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, Actor: San ging chaat goo si. Favorite sports: basketball, boxing, wushu, boardsports. [10] During this time, Wu also took film classes and frequented local theaters, and came to enjoy the works of filmmakers like Akira Kurosawa and Luc Besson, whom he describes as "men of vision. I graduated from university with a degree in architecture and then ended up doing a series of internships with different firms. Son of Diana, a college professor, and George Wu, an engineer. While there, he founded the University of Oregon Wushu Club in 1994 and served as the team's first coach. I turned 40, got married, got a kid, and my mother passed away.
They have one child. [31], On April 6, 2010, Wu married Lisa S. in South Africa. Birthplace Berkeley, CA . In November 2015, he began starring as Sunny on the AMC action series Into the Badlands, for which he also serves as executive producer.
"[40] Wu is an investor in Racks MDB Shanghai, which opened in 2008. He is known as a "flexible and distinctive" leading actor in the Chinese language film industry. [24] In 2005, Wu was nominated as best actor at the 24th Hong Kong Film Awards for his role in Derek Yee's One Nite in Mongkok,[25] and as best supporting actor for New Police Story. "[11], Following graduation, Wu traveled in 1997 to Hong Kong to witness the handover of Hong Kong, with no intention of taking on a movie career.
Wu was born in Berkeley, California, and raised in Orinda, California.
| [7] His childhood role model was Jackie Chan,[5] a man who now considers Wu "like a son". Posed for renowned Singaporean photographer Leslie Kee for Kee's 2006 charity photo-book "Super Stars", dedicated to the victims of the 2004 Asian tsunami disaster, which consist of photographs (mostly erotic) of 300 Asian celebrities by Kee. His father had originated from China in 1949 during the communist revolution in China. He is an actor and producer, known for New Police Story (2004), One Nite in Mongkok (2004) and Warcraft (2016). He has two elder sisters, Greta Wu, and Gloria Wu and an older brother who died when he was just two years old. Bruce Lee was the first star I idolized. In 2001, Wu received criticism from the Hong Kong media for sexual scenes with Suki Kwan in Cop on a Mission, but Wu says that same criticism attracted the attention of directors and the film represented a turning point in the types of roles he chose in the future. Official Sites, Education: University of Oregon (BA of Architecture). They have one child. We'll see what I do after 'Badlands' to show audiences that I have more in my repertoire besides martial arts. From The Virgin Suicides to On the Rocks, IMDb dives into the cinematic stylings of Oscar-winning director Sofia Coppola. 5:00 PM PDT I've been lucky enough to build a career outside of America, where I got 18 years and over 60 films of experience. Founder and first instructor of the University of Oregon Wushu (Chinese Martial Arts) Club. After marrying, they settled in California. Daniel Wu's biography reveals that he was born on 30 September 1974 in Berkeley, California, United States. Born in Berkeley, CA #27. You see it all the time, and it's so weird that they don't see sexuality in Asian men. 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.
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