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本帖最后由 fukgm 于 2010-5-19 16:31 编辑
Dozens of Chinese could play plum role, says actor
ACTOR Warren Lee was surprised and saddened to hear a plum TV role had gone to a caucasian because a Chinese actor could not be found for the part.
"There are literally dozens of actors who could have played that role," the Chinese-Australian Lee said of the key part in the mini-series The Legend of Billy Sing.
Director Geoff Davis cast his son, Josh, as the lead in the series about a deadly Chinese-Australian sniper, who killed 201 Turks at Gallipoli, because he could not find a 60-year-old Chinese actor to play Sing's father.
Tony Bonner, best known from Skippy, was cast in that role.
"Chinese history goes back to the gold rush in Australia," said Lee, 50. "I've known people who are third-, fourth- and even fifth-generation Chinese-Australians."
Asked if he was insulted by the inaccurate casting in The Legend of Billy Sing, Lee said "disappointed is probably the better word".
Another Chinese-Australian actor-director, Tony Chu, 47, believes the mini-series would have been a great opportunity to break down stereotypes. "The role of Billy Sing -- a Chinese-Australian hero of Gallipoli -- would have been something that both the Chinese and Australian populations could have benefited from," he said.
Chu said many actors would have been suitable for the part of Sing's father.
"When you go to auditions where they want someone Chinese, you meet fellow Chinese-Australian actors, and there are a great many of them.
"I don't know how hard the director cast."
Chu said it was not difficult for an actor to play an older man.
In addition to roles across TV, film and stage, Chu has played Wang Chi Yang, the venerable 65-year-old father of the main character in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Flower Drum Song.
"The make-up is like the costume," he said.
"Playing older is really about the actor's performance underneath."
Chu can also deliver the exact Shanghainese accent that Sing's father would have had.
"It goes back to being true to the role," he said.
已经认领并翻译完毕，与前篇Director slammed for 'white-out' of legendary Gallipoli sniper Billy Sing http://bbs.m4.cn/thread-242774-1-1.html 为系列报道 |
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