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The SF-set reboot of Kung Fu on The CW flips the classic martial arts show s gender roles
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Olivia Liang as Nicky Shen in Kung Fu on The CW.Kailey Schwerman/The CW
In a modern reimagining of Ed Spielman’s hit series that starred David Carradine, “Kung Fu” is returning to network television with two unprecedented changes: The lead is a Chinese American woman and the cast is predominantly Asian American, a rarity in the landscape of network television dramas.
The gender-flipped reboot chronicles the journey of Nicky Shen (Olivia Liang), a young woman who, after going through a quarter-life crisis, decides to drop out of university and take a life-altering journey to a remote Chinese monastery. When Nicky returns to San Francisco three years later, she discovers that her hometown has been overrun with crime and corruption and that the local Chinatown, where her parents Jin (Tzi Ma) and Mei-Li (Kheng Hua T
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BRUCE R. MILLER
At the final audition for the new version of âKung Fu,â actress Olivia Liang looked around the room and realized it was the first time she had gotten this far for a role and everyone was Asian.
âYou hear about that moment where an actor is going to be in a corner with headphones on and theyâre like, âDonât bother me because youâre my competition. Itâs you or me.â But there was no sense of that in the room at all.â
After each reading, âWe would all get into a big group hug like, âYou did it.â We had just never seen anything like this â an all-Asian cast on a major network.â
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