With data and digital came visible numbers to show that working together really helps and it slowly changed that culture. GR: You normally play the lead guy in a romantic role in a lot of the videos I’ve seen. I want to make movies! Our senses of humor line up. They're giant!VN: By the way, those guys are all super offended you said they’re 10 years older. Have you run into that?CD: Nope. AU - Lohfeld, Lynne. GR: They were titans of YouTube. I add so much sriracha that the broth turns red, along with lime juice and jalapenos. GR: I once heard a person say Nuh-goo-yen, is that a bad butchering of your name or is it alright?VN: I think for anybody who has never heard the name before, if they say it that way I don’t blame them. I did a little bit of theater at UCLA, that’s what got me curious. I’ve known him since the UCLA days, the LCC days. I got the broken rice with pork and the meat was so flavorful. Co-writer Chris Dinh will be in Madison to present the film at 7 p.m. Saturday at UW Cinematheque, 4070 Vilas Hall, as part of the Asian-American Media Spotlight series. I also met the actress Julie Zhan down at the UC San Diego Asian American Film Festival. I thought it was a character.”. It was cool to be in a category with all these guys.CD: I don’t think it’s getting worse. That’s who ended up giving us money, less of the strangers.CD: A lot of supporters of the short films did as well. Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap, the brilliant and ruthless commander who led the outgunned Vietnamese to victory first over the French and then the Americans, died Friday. But then I heard this very strong negative reaction to it and I thought it meant something, how strongly and negatively they reacted to it right away without giving them a chance. I wanted to direct my first feature film, and Chris wanted to star in his first feature film. GR: What was the character in Crush the Skull? GR: Does your Vietnamese American identity play a role in your creativity?CD: I think we grew up in similar circumstances. I made Viet appear in a Wong Fu video once, and he was like, “What am I doing here?” Did we write it?VN: No.CD: “The Hugger?” I asked him to do it and his nieces were really excited.VN: Oh yeah. Chris and Viet discuss roles available for Asian/Asian American actors. Viet grew up in Texas and I grew up in Hemet, California. He was also a co-writer on a number of viral and award-winning sketches and web-series through his work with Wong Fu Productions. Am I wrong? GR: Resources too, right?VN: I don’t think it’s that small. Lived In Westminster CA, Hawthorne CA, Gardena CA. Horror movies like ours can be at these festivals now with Asian American themed ones, the coming of age ones, and all the ones you would go to the festival for. I said, “I think Tim should be the main guy.” He’s actually really good friends with Katie Savoy who is the actress. But yeah, the film industry is booming there. We found Lee—VN: —Horowitz.CD: —Lee Horowitz from Brooklyn. I think there’s a community building. Vietnamese women raped in wartime seek justice for a lifetime of pain and prejudice. GR: Pretty unhealthy. In a mid-credits scene, Henry and his wife, Sandy, take out a loan for a bakery, presumably on behalf of Sara. Isn’t he in something now?VN: Silicon Valley?CD: Tim’s been in a lot of different shows. But people probably think Chris is famous. GR: That was more stuttering than the whole time you’ve been talking.CD: We just ended on the weirdest subject. I have three siblings and they all have two middle names each. Chris … We have so many friends who are great actors we wish we could cast. It can only grow. It was a lot like the stuff I made growing up, I connected with it. I would say after we did it, we would never do it again.CD: It’s hard.VN: It’s a lot of work. We talked about the Asian American film scene and the YouTube world. 38 reviews of Pho Dinh Vietnamese Cuisine "If you want nice service and good Vietnamese food this is your spot! Thirty-five.CD: Yeah, twenty-five.VN: At least.CD: Thirty, forty, fifty years. GR: I don’t know those guys, but I heard about it, these guys from San Diego. GR: He forever became known as the Dumb Asian. GR: And the Dumb Asian guy was in that too? Every new technology, every new art form is always met with immense hatred, and I remember, I was really interested in what this YouTube thing is all about now. The … No, I think I am.VN: Alright, let’s call all his ex-girlfriends right now.CD: Maybe I set myself up for that one. GR: Yeah, he’s an old dude.CD: He’s like indie comic book guy, right?VN: Yeah, really obscure stuff.CD: Sorry, we didn’t mean to be snobs by mentioning Stan Lee. Source: Wong Fu Productions. GR: You can watch Comfort on a bunch of different platforms, right?CD: Yeah, we released it on Valentine’s Day since it’s a romance. GR: You two worked on Crush the Skull. How did you divide up the work?VN: We wrote it together. They were sold out and I met Joan Huang, and I turned to her and asked her to sneak me in. But then there are all these other nuggets of genres that you can catch as well. It’s interesting to be able to do both. Copyright © 2020 Giant Robot Media, Inc. All rights reserved. But let’s just do the plan to do from the get-go.” And we’ve regretted it ever since.CD: Same here. This is the worst video I’ve ever seen!” The emotional reaction they had to it was so negative and so strong, I remember thinking, “I feel like that means something.” I enjoyed it. It looked like professional stuff. GR: What are you working on now?CD: In terms of what we’re doing right now, Viet is directing TV now. GR: I wasn’t sure if the godfather of pho gives you money.CD: That’d be awesome.VN: As far as being Vietnamese, no, there’s not a guy out there looking for a Vietnamese writing duo searching for money.CD: That guy sounds weird. It came right after the Wong Fu Indiegogo campaign too. Chris has 5 jobs listed on their profile. GR: There was an era of Vietnamese American filmmakers who are maybe 10 years older than you, like Tran Ham, Stephane Gauger, Tim Bui, Charlie Nguyen, and Victor Vu. We had this situation years ago when we first met, and then Viet was like, “Maybe you should do it with you and so and so.” Then I suggested we use a different actor and we regretted that. I actually looked it up, but what is a Dinh?CD: Dinh is my middle name. You either turn away or adopt the new technology that comes along. Rewatching their videos, the ones you’re in have 5 million views!CD: Those were from a few years ago, and now they’re probably considered mediocre.VN: You may or may not know this, but for every view of a video he’s in, he gets a dollar. GR: There is such thing? Chris Dinh, 56. I’m not bullshitting when I say that. We learned a lot from Emily Ting who wrote and directed Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong because she also released on Valentine’s. Since he was a co-writer he decided to star in it.CD: We actually had a discussion once we cast Tim Chiou in it. Binh Dinh, 22, a 5-foot-6-inch Vietnamese man who has gone from 148 to 240 pounds with steroids and weight training, is talking about buying baby food by the case because it … There are a couple of folks on the executive side—Stan Lee who’s at Disney—VN: Stan Lee made a bunch of comic books. The new Vietnamese American wave of filmmakers is not a hundred years old. 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