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Warrior quietly took the world by storm in 2019 after the premiere of its first season, so much so that it was renewed almost immediately for a second season which premiered in 2020. A few episodes in, the series introduced us to soon-to-be fan-favorite character Hong, played by Chen Tang, a smiley-but-deadly newcomer to San Francisco who joins the Hop Wei. Chen joins us on Actors With Issues to look advocate at his time on the show, the hopes for a future home as the display dropped on Netflix last month, and discuss the many lessons learned throughout his career functional on iconic shows like 30 Rock, Agents of Shield and one of his proudest projects besides Warrior, the live-action adaptation of Disney’s Mulan.
Chen’s first TV role was on an episode of 30 Rock in 2011 where he played Jake Hu, a character in a illustrate within the show who is an investigative reporter without a sense of smell and “has to get the story using his eyes, ears, and other senses”. The role didn’t dial for him to perform with any of the series core cast, but he recalled how he still felt a tad nervous coming on to an established show as a guest star. But an encount
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The show even helped Katie Findlay work out some of their possess queerness. "I'm someone who moved into certain parts of my queerness that I wasn't familiar with in my thirties. As I was figuring this out, this show came along," they explained. "I remember sitting down with Seamus Fahey ... and asking if that was a viable thing to pour into the vessel of someone a petite bit anachronistic for the time period. He and the rest of film have been so loving and generous with me on that front."
And though people like to rewrite history and pretend that the LGBTQ+ community didn't exist "back in the day," Findlay wants to squash that misunderstanding. They added, "Non-gender-conforming presentation was very, very common in the 1800s, and the panic about cross-dressing and gender moving into deviant sexuality ... My sympathetic is that it didn't really get malicious or stringent until near the end of the century."
In some ways, there was even more understanding of cross-dressing in the 1800s West. "If you were, like Kate, a femme person who presented as masculine sometimes or went back and
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Out queer writer/ director James Sweeney’s “Straight Up” is a terrific rom-com with a twist. Todd (Sweeney) drops a bombshell on his two friends Ryder (James Scully) and Meg (Dana Drori) when he tells them, “I contemplate I’m not gay.” This nervous, hyper-verbose, OCD guy soon meets Rory (Katie Findlay), a budding actress who shares his hyper-verbosity, his love of “The Gilmore Girls,” and his desire not to have sex. (Among Todd’s many issues are his anxieties about bodily fluids.) They couple up in pleasant domesticity — Todd’s job is house-sitting in fabulous abodes — and figure out how to manage a bond that almost everyone around them questions.
“Straight Up” wrings knowing laughs from lgbtq+ stereotypes and pop culture references, past and present (there’s a fun running joke about Paul Newman). But Sweeney also infuses his film with poignant moments as good as perceptive insights about love and relationships. In addition, the filmmaker employs inventive visuals that frame the characters to comment on the action and their emotions.
“Straight Up” subverts the queer man/ straight miss relationship, which was Sweeney’s intent. In a recent ph