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Good for Bad: Calgary's Yvonne Chapman plays villain with depth on CW's re-imagining of Kung Fu


Author of the article: Eric Volmers
Publishing date: May 14, 2021  •  3 hours ago  •  5 minute read  • 
Yvonne Chapman as Zhilan in CW s Kung Fu. Episode 101. Photo by Kailey Schwerman/2021 Warner Bros. Entertainment Photo by Kailey Schwerman /Kailey Schwerman/The CW
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As an actress, Yvonne Chapman says she gets the biggest charge from her craft when embodying a character far removed from her own personality.
So she must be in a state of constant bliss on the Vancouver set of CW’s Kung Fu. Because there is presumably little overlap between Chapman, the friendly and chatty Calgary-born actress, and the enigmatic assassin named Zhilan that she plays on TV. ....

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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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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) ....

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