When actor Tzi Ma was in elementary school, his family moved from Hong Kong to New York, where they ran a Chinese restaurant on Staten Island. As the youngest of seven children, Ma found another father figure in a brother 18 years his senior who, with the move, left behind a promising career in architecture. Working in the restaurant, he always seemed moody to his kid brother, who could “see the silence” within him. Ma didn’t find out what his brother had given up until years later. read more…

Things were going a little too well for Tzi Ma. Over the past few years, the veteran actor has taken on some of the best roles of his career: nuanced portraits of immigrants, generals and intergalactic senators. In the midst of a larger push for Asian-American representation, Ma has found himself at the center of the action: he played the father of Awkwafina’s Billi in The Farewell, and in March, was about to embark on press tours for both Mulan (in which he plays Mulan’s father) and Tigertail (Alan Yang’s Netflix drama in which he serves as the lead), before Mulan‘s release date was postponed and all non-essential in-person business was called off due to the COVID-19 pandemic. read more…

Tzi Ma has starred in a multitude of TV series and movies including huge franchises like Rush Hour, and more recently, Lulu Wang’s critically acclaimed The Farewell. He will also be featured in Disney’s forthcoming live-action adaptation of Mulan and in The CW’s reboot of Kung Fu. The Hong Kong-born actor has a very storied career working alongside icons on stage and screen. read more…

Alan Yang’s first feature film, Tigertail, which comes out on Netflix April 10, began as a file saved as “FAMILY MOVIE” on his computer, dated August 14, 2016. But when he read the story again later, he shelved it. “I just said, ‘This isn’t it, man. This is a B. It’s because I don’t have a personal enough connection to it,” remembers Yang. So he started writing again. read more…

With the coronavirus pandemic reaching unfathomable proportions, it has in ways awakened​ overt xenophobia from some individuals, who have been wrongfully blaming Asian people as a whole for the virus’ outbreak. Actor Tzi Ma, who is well known for his roles in films such as ‘Mulan,’ ‘The Farewell,’ and ‘Rush Hour’ has spoken out recently about being the victim of a racist verbal attack, and how he hopes humans can combat racism despite being entwined in such a large scale global issue. read more…