{"id":2701,"date":"2017-04-17T02:40:10","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T02:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ninjagirl.net\/?p=2701"},"modified":"2017-04-27T03:33:39","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T03:33:39","slug":"bao-tieu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ninjagirl.net\/ja\/bao-tieu\/","title":{"rendered":"Bao Tieu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/XNeVg74SJaA?rel=0&amp;controls=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bao Tieu was born in Cheshire, United Kingdom where he first began\u00a0his acting career in television commercials starring in three advertisements for a communications company. From there, he\u00a0soon began recognized for\u00a0his in Martial Arts skills. \u00a0Using these skills as a spring board to launch his career he soon\u00a0grew both as an actor and stunt artist mainly known for action films.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1. \u00a0Where are you from?\u00a0 How did you get into Martial Arts?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2714\" style=\"padding: 5px 5px 5px 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/ninjagirl.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"191\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ninjagirl.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/1.jpg 432w, https:\/\/ninjagirl.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/1-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 191px) 100vw, 191px\" \/>I\u2019m originally from Manchester in the UK.\u00a0 My parents are from Vietnam and came over here in here in 1978.\u00a0 Once they arrived here and settled down I popped out, in 1980. \u00a0I went through the same things as a lot of the other students.\u00a0 I started out with Karate then moved on to Shaolin and then to Wushu which I have been doing for a number of years.\u00a0 I never stopped training really.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. \u00a0Do you do that competitively? Are you involved with any organizations which hold competitions?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yes I\u00a0do.\u00a0 The academy that I\u2019m with competes with <a href=\"https:\/\/bccma.com\">BCCMA<\/a> &#8211; we do all the gradings and when there are championships which come through obviously we enter them and get involved and start competing. \u00a0But I haven\u2019t been able to do that the\u00a0past two or three years because the dates clash we have not been able to compete recently due to overlapping schedules.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. \u00a0Is that exclusively in the UK?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yes the BCCMA is the British Chinese Martial Arts association.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. \u00a0How does that relate to your film career.\u00a0 I know that you saw your Martial Arts experience as a way to get involved with the film industry?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2718 alignright\" style=\"padding: 5px 5px 5px 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/ninjagirl.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ninjagirl.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/5.jpg 432w, https:\/\/ninjagirl.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/5-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>Basically, it was because of my Martial Arts that I got recognized in the film and TV industry.\u00a0 It was one of my very first stage shows that I did.\u00a0 Every Chinese New Year we tour the UK and we also have the Cheng Du acrobat team that comes over every year.\u00a0 We combine teams and perform together.\u00a0 It was backstage one time that a casting agent approached me with a business card and said \u201cwe saw what you did up there\u201d because they had seen the Lion Dance that requires Martial Arts skills with the lions head as well and they noticed that.\u00a0 They turned around and said \u201cyou\u2019ve got potential\u201d.\u00a0 I had never thought about TV and film before.<\/p>\n<p>I thought about it as I had never thought to go down that route before.\u00a0 They just gave me the business card and told me to get in touch.\u00a0 And then obviously they had me in and got me to sign the contract.\u00a0 Then they got me to train in Martial Arts because they knew that was my niche and then they got me to do some auditions.<\/p>\n<p>My first audition was rough.\u00a0 It was a UK network company 3 Mobile.\u00a0 And that was the first job I got and obviously I moved on from there.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. \u00a0Can you tell us about some of the projects that you were involved with early on?\u00a0 Some of the films you worked on and how your Martial Arts experience provided you with those opportunities?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My first big hit was the mobile phone commercial I did.\u00a0 I was in the old movie Rocky &#8211; we did a montage of it.\u00a0 It was a spoof of when Rocky was going through his training days.\u00a0 But we were just training to make a better network and provide a better network.\u00a0 They hung me upside down and I was doing upside-down crunches and martial arts exercises for core strength.\u00a0 After that it was about a year later, a producer Andrew Cooke got in touch with me and said I know your reputation and I have seen videos of you performing.\u00a0 Quite a number of people have pointed me in your direction and we have got a Bollywood movie.\u00a0 He needed 50 Martial Arts fighters.\u00a0 So he asked me if I could round up a team for him and if we could do three weeks of film shoots for him.\u00a0 It was like Martial Arts ninjas in the film.\u00a0 So again I got some guys from my Martial Arts academy &#8211; they managed to get 25.\u00a0 They had to get 25 from somewhere else.\u00a0 We all got together came down and did the film shoot.\u00a0 And then then I got credit for it as my first major stunt performing job.\u00a0 And it just progressed from there.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Cooke is also the producer for the movie Bend It Like Beckham. \u00a0He spread my name around and introduced me to more people.\u00a0 He recommended me to other companies.\u00a0 That was my early progression in the Martial Arts stunt world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>6. \u00a0One of the notable films you had the opportunity to work on was <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/C_puVuHoR6o\">Fast and Furious 6<\/a>?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2731 size-medium alignright\" style=\"padding: 5px 5px 5px 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/ninjagirl.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/15857642_10158082646130074_873223811_o-300x141.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"141\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ninjagirl.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/15857642_10158082646130074_873223811_o-300x141.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ninjagirl.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/15857642_10158082646130074_873223811_o-768x360.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ninjagirl.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/15857642_10158082646130074_873223811_o-1024x480.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ninjagirl.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/15857642_10158082646130074_873223811_o.jpg 1151w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>It was very last minute that one because I was in Los Angeles and when I first arrived back to the UK a lot of my Martial Arts action friends were already signed to the film and they had been given the dates for rehearsals and so on.\u00a0 I came back and half was through this.\u00a0 They turned to me and said \u201cBao you need to get involved with this because you have the Martial Arts skills, you have the fight skills, you\u2019re fast at picking things up and they are always in need of people.\u201d\u00a0 In the UK they have the main stunt crew and then you have your performers who act around it.\u00a0 So drop falls, jumps falls, flips.\u00a0 That\u2019s what we do.\u00a0 They have us do various scenes in there and luckily I managed to send my reel through and they said \u201cyes\u201d and brought me on board as well.\u00a0 Because I\u2019m trained as a drift car driver they saw that and being Fast and Furious, which is car related, and because I could drive they said \u201cokay, we\u2019ll have you on that as well on standby\u201d.\u00a0 I did a few of the fight scenes.\u00a0 So that was Fast and Furious 6 in London.<\/p>\n<p><strong>7. \u00a0Can you tell us about some of the other projects that you have been working on recently?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><del><\/del><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2726 size-medium\" style=\"padding: 5px 5px 5px 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/ninjagirl.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/14-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ninjagirl.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/14-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ninjagirl.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/14.jpg 604w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>We also did <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/j8cKdDkkIYY\">47 Ronin<\/a>, that\u2019s quite a few years ago now it was my master that brought me in on that one, he was one of the swordsman in that one.\u00a0 He spoke to one of the producers who brought me on board for that one.\u00a0 I was playing one of the Red Ronins in that.\u00a0 That was a good shoot.\u00a0 That was nearly five weeks worth of shoots.\u00a0 The boot camp was about three months long.\u00a0 That was a good shoot as well.<\/p>\n<p>Recently I started doing <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/jIM4-HLtUM0\">King Arthur<\/a>.\u00a0 Its been directed by Guy Richie.\u00a0 I was a stunt performer on that.\u00a0 I was doing a lot of the hand combat and we had a lot of sword training as well which you can actually see in my show reel.\u00a0 We had two weeks of boot camp for that.\u00a0 We were training to get ready to fight the Black Knights.\u00a0 My scene was actually the main scene where we charge into the castle to take over the castle to try and assassinate King Arthur.<\/p>\n<p><strong>8. \u00a0Do you train some of the other actors in the project or do you simply do training for the scenes?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We just train for the scenes and the action coordinator because there are so many actors and so many stunt actors, they break us down into groups so they say \u201ccan you come up with your own fight sequence and then we will come around one by one check out your fight sequences to see if it does match with the era of the film.\u00a0 If they like the fight scene they\u2019ll shoot the scene on a steady cam and they usually have it on an aerial camera as well so the aerial cam will be shooting us as\u00a0well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>9. \u00a0Early in your career were you inspired by any Martial Arts movies?\u00a0 Were you a fan of Martial Arts cinema when you were growing up?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2719 alignright\" style=\"padding: 5px 5px 5px 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/ninjagirl.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/6-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"324\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ninjagirl.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/6-1.jpg 540w, https:\/\/ninjagirl.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/6-1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 324px) 100vw, 324px\" \/>It&#8217;s every kids dream.\u00a0 I was one of them as well.\u00a0 One of the first films I remember watching as a kid that really did inspire me &#8211; it was during the years I was getting bullied and pushed around at school &#8211; it was called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/xCEuNqofDM4\">Monkey Magic<\/a>\u201d\u00a0 it was back in the 1980\u2019s. \u00a0 It was his Martial Arts moves that inspired me.\u00a0 Every time he did fights he did really well and when he fought he had the golden staff which is a bow staff.\u00a0 When he used it it just inspired me and thats one of the reasons I got involved in Martial Arts.\u00a0 At that age part of the process was figuring out which Martial Arts was which and that was when I decided to start going to Shaolin and started studying with my old master, Master Wan, who has passed away now.\u00a0 He was in Sheffield in the UK.\u00a0 He was the one who taught me everything I need to know.\u00a0 After that I moved on to my new master, Master Chen De Qing who teaches WUSHU and Shaolin at the same time.\u00a0 He\u2019s fifth generation master and World Wide National China Championship winner.\u00a0 He was the one who brought me into 47 Ronin as well.<\/p>\n<p>There were also Martial Arts actors who inspired me.\u00a0 Jackie Chan, Jet Lee, Donnie Yen, people like that really do inspire me in the Martial Arts world.\u00a0 I\u2019d say Jackie Chan was my main inspiration to follow.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/ZV9F0aawu3M?rel=0&amp;controls=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>10. \u00a0Do you have a favorite movie with\u00a0Jackie Chan?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He wasn\u2019t the main star in it but he was in Shaolin. \u00a0 He was coproducer in that film but he was also cast in a role in it.\u00a0 He played the chef in that film &#8211; the chef for the Shaolin Monks.\u00a0 Just an absolutely amazing film simply because it kept a record of the story of what happened to the Shaolin temple back in the day and it was a true story of what happened.\u00a0 Just an absolutely amazing movie and the Martial Arts in it.\u00a0 There\u2019s minimal wire work in it.\u00a0 Everything is genuine flips, genuine kicks, genuine maneuvers and everything you learn in Kung Fu.\u00a0 In every move you can see the form and you can see the movement.\u00a0 Its a genuine movie.<\/p>\n<p><strong>11. \u00a0You\u2019re talking a little about the history of Martial Arts.\u00a0 Are you able to trace your roots back to China, do your ancestors have any connections with the Martial Arts?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>None of my family have any connection.\u00a0 My connection now is through my master,\u00a0Chen De Qing and because he came from the province of Han Nam and because he trained in the Shaolin temple he taught us a lot about it.\u00a0 And during holidays we would travel back over there &#8211; I believe I will be traveling back there this August.\u00a0 When we are over here we train the principals and are taught all the things that are taught at the temple in the traditional Martial Arts method.<\/p>\n<p><strong>12. \u00a0When you were in Los Angeles were you taking acting courses?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2716 size-medium\" style=\"padding: 5px 5px 5px 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/ninjagirl.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/3-236x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"236\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ninjagirl.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/3-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/ninjagirl.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/3.jpg 425w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/>Yes.\u00a0 The reason I went over there was to take courses at the Stella Adler acting studio because I wanted to pursue my acting career aside from my work in action.\u00a0 I did two years training there through summer courses.<\/p>\n<p><strong>13. \u00a0Do you have plans to go back to LA?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yes.\u00a0 I have three movies lined up for me so I have to meet with the production company and I also have a new talent agency who wants to sign me onto their agency books.<\/p>\n<p><strong>14. \u00a0Are the films Martial Arts related?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yes, two of them are and the third just has a really good story.\u00a0 Obviously I\u2019m not allowed to give away the details without them released yet.\u00a0 One of them is kind of like a fiction horror action movie.\u00a0 I\u2019m playing one of the strong lead characters in there.<\/p>\n<p><strong>15. \u00a0You talked about Shaolin and how the Martial Arts moves are very authentic.\u00a0 What is your opinion about the use of wire work or special effects in action movies?\u00a0 For instance, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/4xPC1lEJ6Mg\">Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon<\/a> is probably the first one that was popular to a western audience.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2742 \" style=\"padding: 5px 5px 5px 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/ninjagirl.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/15879612_10158082541010074_1011519562_n-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ninjagirl.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/15879612_10158082541010074_1011519562_n-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ninjagirl.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/15879612_10158082541010074_1011519562_n-768x574.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ninjagirl.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/15879612_10158082541010074_1011519562_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>Yes, that was one of the movies that was going through my mind when you mentioned that.\u00a0 Oddly enough I actually got auditioned for that.<\/p>\n<p>The Martial Arts in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon still carries the authenticity but it just got carried away too much with the wire work.\u00a0 Every time they do the wire works I understand it is the old way of doing Chinese filming but its kind of a little bit over the top. \u00a0 When you watch it it is a little bit unbelievable, you know that people can\u2019t actually fly that much in real life.\u00a0 It kind of becomes too fictional rather than traditional.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know, I\u2019m kind of 50\/50 towards it.\u00a0 When you have real close-up fight scenes it&#8217;s really believable and that\u2019s when I love it but when it starts getting into wire work and it gets into extremes where they\u2019re jumping over the tops of buildings and so on &#8211; even Ninjutsu can\u2019t do that.\u00a0 So that\u2019s the point where it starts to spoil the movie.\u00a0 I like the realism in Martial Arts films.<\/p>\n<p><strong>16. \u00a0Do you try to pursue that in your own career or have you looked for roles or scripts that try to portray Martial Arts in a more realistic manner.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I do yes, that\u2019s everything that I tend to go for so several movies that I have done and a pilot shoot that I\u2019ve just completed called \u201cDeliverance\u201d that will be seen at Cannes have wire work in them.\u00a0 I instructed the stunt coordinator by saying, \u201clook, I know this is on the wire but I don\u2019t want it over the top, I don\u2019t want people to think \u2018this is on a wire\u2019\u201d.\u00a0 So that is the direction I go down when I am doing stunts and I keep a close eye on them with the stunt coordinator.\u00a0 If I feel uncomfortable with something or if I think something isn\u2019t right I\u2019ll say something to the stunt coordinator.\u00a0 Then we will go back to the script to see if what I wanted to do was right for the film.\u00a0 Then if we agree they allow me to do it.\u00a0 Luckily for \u201cDeliverance\u201d they let me take the upper hand with the stunts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>17. \u00a0Is that something you have typically done is communicate with your coordinators or directors?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, we always have to do that because if we think something isn\u2019t working and you can visually see it because you are the body that\u2019s flying through the air you know that that is going to look awful on the camera so you have to have a few words with them.\u00a0 Once you\u2019ve done the scene that they want then you can do the scene the way that you want.\u00a0 At least if gives them time to play with it.\u00a0 I always do that with productions.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/QavGdUmBAmc?rel=0&amp;controls=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>18. \u00a0Do you have a sense of where you want to end up with your career?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I do, yes.\u00a0 As I said earlier on, Jackie Chan is my inspiration.\u00a0 He is the direction I want to head in so whether be working along side him &#8211; I\u2019d just be honored to be signed up to work on a film with him.\u00a0 I have several friends who are signed up with him already and taught me about how he is.\u00a0 It has inspired me to try and work with him again in any of his up and coming movies and hopefully before he retires.\u00a0 That\u2019s where I want to be.\u00a0 I want to be able to perform with people who I can look up to.<\/p>\n<p><strong>19. \u00a0It sounds like you have managed to bring yourself closer to that goal with your recent roles and casting in Los Angeles.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2720 size-medium alignleft\" style=\"padding: 5px 5px 5px 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/ninjagirl.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/7-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ninjagirl.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/7-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ninjagirl.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/7-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ninjagirl.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/7.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Another one that I have to go back and meet, his name is Leo Fong, he used to be a fighter along Bruce Lee back in the day.\u00a0 He\u2019s well-known, he\u2019s known in Los Angeles and he is in the Martial Arts Hall of Fame and because we have mutual friends &#8211; we have a friend in common who works for CBS Studios over there he knows about me and my friend has spoken about me.\u00a0 He said, \u201cwhen he comes over here I want to meet this guy and I want to work with him on something\u201d. \u00a0 So that is why I will be in LA so I can meet with him and see what leads he has\u00a0for me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>20. \u00a0One of the films we haven\u2019t talked about is Doctor Strange.\u00a0 I understand you were involved with that film?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2741 size-medium\" style=\"padding: 5px 5px 5px 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/ninjagirl.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/15879576_10158082541005074_2132295983_n-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ninjagirl.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/15879576_10158082541005074_2132295983_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ninjagirl.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/15879576_10158082541005074_2132295983_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ninjagirl.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/15879576_10158082541005074_2132295983_n.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Yes!\u00a0 I was involved with that one.\u00a0 It had completely slipped my mind actually.\u00a0 That was another strange one.\u00a0 I never really got called in for an audition.\u00a0 It was through a friend called Nino.\u00a0 He was signed on to it and he did a lot of stunt work in it and then it got to a finally scene where we had to do the Hong Kong\u00a0scene.\u00a0 They needed more Martial Arts bodies.\u00a0 They needed people who were already highly trained.\u00a0 They needed people who already knew what they were doing.<\/p>\n<p>Nino gave me a phone number one day and said \u201cgive these guys a call and don\u2019t pass it on to anyone\u201d this is actually someone who is in the production team and they are looking for someone who is in the Martial Arts and I recommended you\u201d.\u00a0 So I got in touch with them.\u00a0 I gave them a phone call and sent them my show reel.\u00a0 They said I was everything they were looking for and they needed me on board.\u00a0 So you make the boot camp.\u00a0 They said that since they had me now they would utilize my full length of contract use me in the final scene which is the Hong Kong scene.\u00a0 She basically said \u201cwe want you as a stunt performer\u201d so whenever there are explosions we want you to be able to crash and fall.\u00a0 Because of my experience with Parkour when there are explosions they need someone to jump over burning cars &#8211; jump over anything that was an obstacle.\u00a0 That was basically my task in Doctor Strange.<\/p>\n<p><strong>21. \u00a0So that gives you a connection with Marvel doesn\u2019t it?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, it does.\u00a0 I\u2019m friends with one of the lead actresses as well &#8211; she was performing alongside Benedict.\u00a0 It was great &#8211;\u00a0 I was there in the zone with the leads and we would do the stunts and I remember it was the second to last day and everyone was tired.\u00a0 We kept changing camera angles and the story board kept changing.\u00a0 I remember Scott came down from his camera and actually grabbed ahold of me because every scene we were doing I seemed to be caught in the camera lens and running the wrong way.\u00a0 So he came down and he had actually drawn a route for me.\u00a0 Everyone was wondering why Bao was getting called out.\u00a0 So\u00a0he put his arm over my shoulder and lead me through the action scene and said \u201cfollow me\u201d and he actually walked me in the direction I needed to go &#8211; where I needed to be running.\u00a0 The script originally had me running in front of the principals but it was causing a distraction from the attention of the principals.\u00a0 So they made sure the principals moved forward so that I would go flying behind them.\u00a0 I went to see the movie and got to see that scene and I was surprised because they actually reversed that scene so I saw myself running backwards!\u00a0 That\u2019s why I posed something saying I look great running backwards!<\/p>\n<p><strong>22. I understand you were in a music video recently?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The music video is called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmthofficial.com\">Bring Me The Horizon<\/a> (BMTH) and the song is called OH NO.<br \/>\nMy agent sent me an email telling me that I had the audition for this, and was originally asked to audition as the sound guy in the music video, but after auditioning, they told my agent I was on a pencil for the job, and when they confirmed, they actually offered me a more suited role of playing the Henchman working for the big boss (he was the lead role in the music video).<br \/>\nThe band are originally from Sheffield, GB, and are now a global rock metal band signed by Sony Entertainment.<br \/>\nThe music video was done by Sony Entertainment, and the director was Isaac Eastgate.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/SEp9Kh0M4f0?rel=0&amp;controls=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>23. \u00a0Maybe you can tell us a little about your Parkour experience.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Its just through the Martial Arts, of course in the Wushu there is a lot of jumping so through the jumping skills I kind of learn how to leap over things so that I have been doing.\u00a0 Jumping over walls, jumping over rocks.\u00a0 Its just basic Parkour, I wouldn\u2019t say I am highly skilled.\u00a0 But I have enough skill to bring me through to the film industry.\u00a0 If I needed to get over an obstacle, I\u2019m not sure I would be able to fly over it.\u00a0 So that\u2019s what I have been using in the film industry.\u00a0 Scott called me down and said \u201cI know that you can run, I know that you can jump so I want you to jump through this behind the principals\u201d.\u00a0 He knew that I could do it without getting injured as well.\u00a0 That\u2019s what anyone wants &#8211; especially the lead director.<\/p>\n<p><strong>24. \u00a0Is it something that you do as part of a club or do you go out with other people onto the streets and buildings?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2735 size-medium\" style=\"padding: 5px 5px 5px 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/ninjagirl.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/15871178_10158082637770074_1197298903_n-165x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"165\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ninjagirl.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/15871178_10158082637770074_1197298903_n-165x300.jpg 165w, https:\/\/ninjagirl.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/15871178_10158082637770074_1197298903_n.jpg 528w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 165px) 100vw, 165px\" \/>No, again it is just something through the Wushu so through the Wushu Kung Fu we do a lot of jumps anyway.\u00a0 We do a lot of jumps.\u00a0 If you looked into it everything with the Wushu is on the three step.\u00a0 It works similar to Parkour where you run, line up and then you jump.\u00a0 With Wushu you have to jump up high so that you can get your twists and you can get your turns in.\u00a0 Again it is the same adaptation for Parkour.\u00a0 It works hand in hand really.\u00a0 Basically what I am saying is that if you do Wushu or if you do Shaolin then Parkour is second nature as well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>25. \u00a0Do you speak Chinese?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No I speak Vietnamese.\u00a0 I recently got called for Tomb Raider which is due to shoot in South Africa.\u00a0 The casting director got me right through final rounds and the character they were looking for was down to my description &#8211; I was exactly the kind of person they needed for the role.\u00a0 It was me all over.\u00a0 She sent me a message asking me if I can speak Mandarin and I had to say no.\u00a0 It put me straight back onto a pencil and I haven\u2019t heard back since so I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve landed that role simply because I don\u2019t speak Chinese &#8211; I speak Vietnamese.<\/p>\n<p><strong>26. \u00a0I know that recently that has been an issue in the film industry &#8211; matching ethnicities with roles of a similar ethnic background.\u00a0 Andrey Ivchenko mentioned this and that he would like to see Russians cast for Russian roles in films rather than casting Americans of Australians for a Russian part.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I know that in Doctor Strange there were economic reasons that they did that.\u00a0 So yea, \u201cpolitics\u201d as they call it.\u00a0 That\u2019s the way it was with Tilda Swinton &#8211; playing the Ancient One.<\/p>\n<p><strong>27. \u00a0Also, Ghost in the Shell &#8211; there was a huge backlash when an American was cast to play a Japanese character that is such a huge part of Japanese culture.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I certainly feel the drawbacks of it because the main role for Tomb Raider was such a strong role and the main reason I didn\u2019t get is was I don\u2019t speak Mandarin or Cantonese.\u00a0 I think this is going to be the main year that I am going to be learning Cantonese or Mandarin, or possibly both if I have the brain power.\u00a0 As they say you have to keep learning in order to advance.\u00a0 It is a huge drawback that I don\u2019t speak Mandarin or Cantonese.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been to quite a few auditions over the years but they\u2019ve asked me to speak Vietnamese.<\/p>\n<p><strong>28. \u00a0Have you studied Mandarin or Cantonese previously?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2717 size-medium\" style=\"padding: 5px 5px 5px 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/ninjagirl.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/4-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ninjagirl.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/4-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/ninjagirl.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/4.jpg 432w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/>No, my parents taught me Vietnamese from a very young age &#8211; I believe from the age of four.\u00a0 I am fluent in the Vietnamese language but with Mandarin I am simply going to be asking my master to teach me Mandarin.\u00a0 He is fluent in Mandarin and English as well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>29. \u00a0Have you gone back to Vietnam<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My parents have said that they want to take the family back because they want to show us the real Vietnam. \u00a0 My mother suggested we go back together\u00a0and that should be in the next two years.\u00a0 They will teach us about the real Vietnam and teach me about where I came from as well.\u00a0 Rather than going as a tourist, going as a family.<\/p>\n<p><strong>30. \u00a0Are there any projects that you have in the future or might be doing in the future?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Just the three I told you about.\u00a0 I need to go back to LA to talk to my agent about them.\u00a0 Once they do a press release about it I can talk about them.\u00a0 Right now they fall in the realm of the &#8220;NDA&#8221; &#8211; the non-disclosure, so I am not allowed to talk about them yet but it is something exciting coming up over the next two or three years.\u00a0 One of them is going to be made into a TV series as well.\u00a0 We\u2019ll see how it takes off on the America TV channels.<\/p>\n<p><strong>31. \u00a0Do you have anything you would like to say to the readers at Ninjagirl?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As a Martial Artist everyone knows you have to stay humble.\u00a0 Everything you put out into the universe you have to do positively.\u00a0 You have to train hard and never think that you are the best because you never are, there\u2019s always someone out there who is better than you. \u00a0There\u2019s someone out there that can do two back flips but there will always be someone who can do three or four.\u00a0 So always stay humble, always train hard and listen to the people who help you and don\u2019t take too much self pride in everything because sometimes when you fall someone else can overtake you if you don\u2019t build bridges so it can always backfire on you if you don\u2019t build bridges with someone.\u00a0 They could possibly be someone who takes the upper hand when you walk into a production company.\u00a0 You just have to work as a team &#8211; especially as a Martial Arts stunt performer\/actor &#8211; you have to work as a team and work as a family.\u00a0 I think that shows through the with the Fast and Furious franchise &#8211; everyone works closely as a family.\u00a0 If anyone wanted to pursue this career they need to treat everyone as an equal &#8211; treat everyone as your brother and sister or your father.\u00a0 Treat them as though they are directing you in the right way.\u00a0 The main thing is to just stay humble.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for talking to us!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2727 size-large\" style=\"padding: 5px 5px 5px 5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/ninjagirl.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/15-1024x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ninjagirl.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/15-1024x600.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ninjagirl.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/15-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ninjagirl.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/15-768x450.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ninjagirl.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/15.jpg 1439w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bao Tieu was born in Cheshire, United Kingdom where he first began\u00a0his acting career in television commercials starring in three advertisements for a communications company. 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