Interview with Daniel Wu

Usually, Independent filmmakers work from the ground up, struggling to get exposure for their projects, so I found it interesting that Daniel did it the other way around.

After establishing himself as an actor in the Hong Kong movie industry, Dan took on the role of director with "Heavenly Kings", a part narrative, part documentary that exposes the politics and commodification of cantopop in the Hong Kong music industry.

Basically he and his friends formed a boy band with minimal talent and became a huge phenomenon in Asia, performing to over 50,000 fans. Proof that saccharine, karaoke music prevails over actual talent.

Our Media Institutions group project was defining Independent film: from content and aesthetics to mode of production and distribution. My section of the project revolved around the directors.

This is the edited down version of my interview with Dan for our class presentation.

Category:

Film & Animation

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• wu
• heavenly
• kings
• independent
• film

[sealpointmm]

I could care less if Daniel Wu is American or Chinese or whatnot. The fact that he was properly educated in a good university in America and that he speaks with a great sense of intellectuality prove himself to be way better than most of those so called "idols" from HK such as high school drop out scumbag Edison Chen.

[ichirokes]

Hey Asian people, Daniel Wu is an American. pls give him a time to improvement his chinese speaking as long as he can speak to Chinese people! lah!

[discodisco]

he is just soo damn cute fkfkfk

[bigfatdick5000]

I am just amazed Daniel can speak english, I thought he doesn't know how to speak english all along. hahahhaha

[gingerakajean]

Yes, he is Shanghainese born in the us

[binh1992]

I like the way he answers all the question, every single interview

[1Absolutka1]

I dont care about his accent, it doesnt matter, he is great actor, I think acting its not just about your speech, its about feelings too, probably hes goal is also to wake up some emotions in you you can think about, I can feel he deeply loves what hes going, thats why my admiration for him is growing everytime I see some of his movie

Keep up your great work Daniel :))

[SarangHae3]

The fact that he speaks English and Cantonese both fluenty makes him even sexier. He speaks very intelligently also. Daniel my love, U are way too hot!!!!

[Dragonz221]

crap he never told me bout him bein in a boyband imma bug him about the next time he visits

[swtvtpanda]

daniel wu is awesome!

he was born in cali!

[menomaruna]

i think the best video with Daniel wu is New police story,because he is the bad boy^^