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While at sxsw, we spoke with AmericanBornChinese author geneluenyang, showrunner Kelvin Yu, producer Melvin Mar (chineseguy88), and stars Ben Wang, Daniel Wu, TheChinHan & Sydney Taylor about transforming the graphic novel into a disneyplus series:
Disney+'s upcoming series American Born Chinese, which premiered at the SXSW Film & TV Festival last month, will be making its way to the streaming service on May 24. Based on Gene Luen Yang's award-winning graphic novel by the same name, the supernatural show follows meek high schooler Jin Wang as his life turns upside down thanks to a burgeoning friendship with the new foreign exchange student, Wei-Chen.
I met Kelvin at a different panel – those panels worked out for me. I said we should just put all this together, and here we are at a panel. Gene Luen Yang: The book came out in 2006, and I think there was resistance from both sides. There was resistance from Hollywood towards stories that had Asian American protagonists, and then there was internal resistance in me too. I was specifically freaked out.
It does feel like the planets lined up, especially with so many actors from Everything Everywhere All at Once in it. Was there a connection there, even though it hadn't come out yet? Ben, Jin is the perfect reluctant hero to the point where I'm like, "Is this man going to stand up and fight? Is this going to happen?" How eager were you to get into that role, and what can you say about his arc over the season?
She’s just the cute girl at school, and then in one episode we follow her home and see that she deals with things that everybody else does; with her parents and her siblings and her own personal feelings. And her feelings for Jin, whatever those might be. I think she's one of those characters that is written to be relatable. Her fronts are put up for a reason, but it's okay to let those come down every once in a while, especially when you meet a nice friend.
Daniel, you're obviously a martial arts hero. You have done plenty of action roles yourself. How far removed are you from the Monkey King? What is your way into that? Also, in my real life, I'm a father now also. And so, I really relate to those issues. My daughter's 9 years old now. I wish her to be a certain way, but she's not, and you’ve got to let her be herself. I was going through similar issues at the time, and it made a lot of sense to me that I understood where to go with this character pretty much right away from reading it.
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