It’s like you know there’s a lot of stuff written about it from an outside scholar’s perspective. I did like boatloads of research on that, boat loads of just, not only like historical research in books and websites and stuff, but also material from the Chinese perspective. And that gave me so much because while doing the research…I love doing the research for it because it gives you such a very clear picture of where you’re coming from and where you’re landing. I know quite a lot about the end of the Qing dynasty, which is like late 1800s, early 1900s at that time. Like historical…not only historical fact about, but also as a Chinese person like from China. You know there’s a wealth of resources there. Were there any kind of resources or anything that you used to prepare for the setting of Warrior, that time in Chinatown, San Francisco, or just Hong generally?Ĭhen Tang: Oh, definitely. I’ve heard you also say in preparing for your character, you’re kind of a history buff. I think I may have seen some of that in like a Saw movie or something. That training sounds…I can’t even imagine. So I trained a lot with that, quite, quite a lot with that, just to be able to not only make it go where you want to go, but also to not be afraid of hitting yourself. It’s like a short chain…imagine a short chain with two sharp heavy weights at the end. It’s basically closer to the weapon that Hong actually has on the show. And then I also trained in LA, I found a guy who specialized in a shorter Japanese weapon. Learning the whip chain, it’s like a long chain that has many sections and you whip it around.
I spent many, many, many hours in preparation for it. And on top of that I was training a lot with that soft weapon, the chain weapon. But on Warrior your whole body is in fighting shape.
You know, it’s one thing to get fit, because on Mulan, we were fit as f*ck. Yeah, so for me it was a whole process in and of itself.
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It felt like being a pro athlete, so you can train and don’t get hurt the next day.
Hours a day! And then afterward, every single day, I would do hours of physical therapy and recovery exercise like ice baths. You’re basically taking like a piece of taffy that’s been hard in the sun and just stretching it and stretching it. I don’t know if you’ve ever done that kind of mobility training for like martial arts or anything…it’s blindingly painful sometimes because they are literally…because we had to do it as fast as we could and have as much mobility as possible to get what we wanted, where I wanted to go. Like hour after hour after hour of mobility training. And then I also had like…I’m talking I was in that stunt tent maybe 8 to 10 hours a day. Because not only do we have incredibly intense stunt training, I also had the weapon training. I think in many ways the training on Warrior was more intense than Mulan because of that element. And now I’ve got to be this loosey goosey, whip like guy. Because Yao…first off, I wanted to lose about 15 pounds because Yao was like sort of this brick, like a solid concrete block who’s very, very tight and that was by design of how I trained and everything. It felt like a two different…completely night and day. I had mentioned this in a couple other interviews, because I did Warrior right after Mulan, the shift in your body physically is vast. Could compare the training between Mulan and Warrior ?Ĭhen Tang: Oh, absolutely. POCCulture: I’ve heard you talk about the intense training regimen with Mulan. studios can do a better job appealing to the ever desirable China box office.īe sure to watch Chen Tang in Disney’s Mulan, streaming now on Disney+, and in Cinemax’s Warrior, airing Fridays at 10 PM! Below, Tang talks about the intense training for Warrior, even coming from an already significant physical project like Mulan, how Joe Taslim stands out to him as a truly elite martial artist, and his thoughts on how U.S. Tang gave me such incredible and thoughtful answers that I had to split the interview into two parts. In part 1 of my interview with Tang, he talked about his unique background immigrating from China to Memphis, TN, growing up in the South, and how meaningful it is for him to be playing Warrior’s first openly gay character. Someone who is able to perfectly balance his American and Chinese cultures while also stealing every scene he’s in. Actor Chen Tang, who played Yao in Disney’s Mulan and is currently on Cinemax’s Warrior as the lethally happy newcomer Hong, is the kind of actor U.S.
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