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Once upon a time, Bruce Lee developed a potential TV series about a martial artist in the American Old West. Networks weren t interested, but Warner Bros. allegedly took that concept and transformed it into
Kung Fu, the 70s series starring David Carradine, and gave Lee no credit. Decades later, the original concept was brought back to life as
Warrior, an action-packed series that stars Andrew Koji as Ah Sahm, a martial arts prodigy who emigrates from China to San Francisco under mysterious circumstances and becomes a hatchet man for one of Chinatown’s most powerful crime families.
The makeup of the cast carries extra weight given that
Kung Fu is a reimagining of the 1972 television show of the same name by Ed Spielman, which followed the story of the half-Chinese, half-white Shaolin monk Kwai Chang Caine, played by David Carradine, a white actor. The new adaptation arrives at a time when calls for an end to Hollywood’s whitewashing of roles have gotten louder. In recent years, a pattern of white actors cast as Asian characters in particular from Tilda Swinton as the Ancient One in
Doctor Strange to Scarlett Johansson as Major Motoko Kusanagi in the live-action adaptation of
What to watch this Easter weekend
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NZ Herald
Looking for something to keep you entertained this Easter? Callum Henderson shares his top picks of what to watch and listen to for the week ahead.
Pick of the Week: Operation Varsity Blues (Netflix) Everything has a price – including admission to top US colleges. The back door to an Ivy League school comes via a donation with a price tag in the tens of millions, independent college counsellor Rick Singer told wealthy parents. His side door was a bargain by comparison – usually somewhere more in the region of a million.