American Born Chineseis all about blending genres.
you’re able to get a taste ofAmerican Born Chinese’s action in the exclusive video above.
“We have this incredible stunt team.
Leonard Wu in ‘American Born Chinese.'.Disney/Carlos Lopez Calleja
A lot of them are from China,” Yu says in the video.
“These people are as close to real-life superheroes as you’ll ever meet.”
Zhang isn’t the only hero ofAmerican Born Chinese’s action accomplishments.
Jim Liu as Wei-Chen in ‘American Born Chinese.'.Disney
In that style, the camera is part of the fight," Wu says.
That’s because the camera is in there moving along with everybody.
It’s not easy to do!
We struggled with that onInto the Badlands, teaching Western cameramen how to do that.
It’s very hard, it’s very physical, it’s very tiring for the cameraman.
They become one of the fighters with us.
It’s a dance between the camera and the players and the choreography, all together."
So it can be small, it can be big, it can be medium-sized.
That adds a whole other palette to the fighting picture."
It definitely took some getting used to.
“It was pretty hard!
My hands would hurt because it’s pretty heavy, and the moves were really, really, hard.
“We shot in two units a lot,” added Wang.
American Born Chinesehits Disney+ on May 24.
