So generous and so loving.
Mina Shum, a Canadian Asian director, she’s also fabulous.
“And that was over a weekend, so we had no idea what was going on.
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On Monday they came back with three duffle bags of powdered sugar and the cash.
They thought we were real, they thought wewerecocaine smugglers.”
“So that was my humble beginnings,” the actor says with a laugh.
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“Because you never see an Asian American face as a veteran.
Not to my knowledge, at the time.
And I embrace those opportunities.
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“The guy was a triple spy, never caught.
“An extraordinary individual I had the opportunity to meet.
So that’s an added advantage for us as actors, that we get to meet extraordinary people.”
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In the duo’s 2004 black comedyThe Ladykillers,Ma starred alongside Hanks,Marlon Wayans,J.K.
Simmons, and more as a group of robbers.
“When we were shooting in China, nainai was [around],” Ma says.
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“She’s just so energetic and vibrant.
And she got like an electric wheelchair.
“You gotta watch that scene, it’s crazy,” Ma says.
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I’m telling you, they should do a movie about that, when nainai was young.”
And thus far, he says almost all the guest directors have been people of color and women.
“We met and she didn’t pitch the project yet.
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She was going in to do it.
I said, ‘Wow, that’s really exciting.
I wish you all success,'” Ma recalled.
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That’s her first pitch.
That’s what she did.
She called me and said, ‘Want to do my show?’
I said, ‘Tell me when and where, I’ll be there right now.'”
“He really believes in his daughter’s abilities.
“And that was a discussion I had with Christina very early on.
That this was the dad that I want.
I want him to be a guy who’s lighter, he’s supportive.
He’s more gentle with everybody.
