Watch Benny in XIII2 – “Berzerk”
Remember I worked in this Canada and France co-produced TV show “XIII The Series 2” Episode 12 – “Berkzerk” last summer? Below the short clip is extracted from French Canal+ HD’s preview of XIII 2 Episode 12 “Berzek” in France, hence, it’s all in French.
Appearing as “Yen-Boi” a Supporting Role in TV Series XIII2 Ep 12 “Berzerk”
I landed a supporting role at the action TV show “XIII” season 2 episode 12 “Berzerk”, playing a 13-year-old Chinese boy Yen-Boi setting in Shanghai. I filmed from July 19th to July 27th, 2012 and had enjoyed it greatly. One of the interesting things was, I was pleasantly surprised to find out my Kung Fu master – Sifu Alan Tang, whom I trained Wushu (Kungfu) with since age 7 in Sunny Tang Martial Arts School in Scarborough, was the stunt double for me in this show! When he showed up onset, I was like “wow!”
I started to train Wushu (a.k.a. Kungfu, a type of Chinese martial arts) at age 7 and sort of stop training for competitive martial arts at age 12 after I competed in Canadian National Wushu Championships, because my feet were feeling a bit weird perhaps from some minor injuries during training, and my mom worried that I might not be able to grow tall if I kept training Wushu due to all those stretching I had to do every day lol.
Well, I am 5’8″ at age 14, so I guess height isn’t becoming a problem at all! 😛
Some on-set still images can be seen over here.
Onset for “Doodlebops” – Green Screen Experience!
So today I was onset filming “Doodlebops” as character Ken in “Doodlebops – Rock’n Road Show” series. In this episode, I transformed to a cartoon animation character and have a great time with Doodlebops. All my filming today was in a studio in front of green screen, because in the post production, I will be put in a totally different scene. I got my “tool kits” and I talked and danced to the Doodlebops, there”s also a part where I act to “transform” into a cartoon character. You could see this from the videos that my mom took for me on set today in the “Videos” page. Comparing to shooting for “Being Erica”, today”s shooting was much lighter 😛 , I was wrapped in 3 hours. It was very fun tough!
More behind-the-scenes photos from my shooting today: ‘Onset Filming “Doodlebops” – Green Screen Experience can be seen over here!
And you can check out my behind-the-scenes footages by clicking the thumbnails below:
My first acting job in “Being Erica” 2
It is wonderful and a lot of fun filming “Being Erica 2” when I was on set yesterday. My call time was 5:30pm and I worked until mid-night before I got “wrapped” (that”s the film industry term of “done for the day”). I got a bit stomach ache around 9pm because I didn”t eat for too long 🙁 but the crew were so nice to me, they made me a toasted sandwich and shuttled me back to the base camp to my little room in the trailer so that I could lay down and rest. I soon resumed my energy and went back on set to finish filming.
Oh yeah, forgot to mention, the cool thing is I got a little unit/room in the trailer in the base camp where I could rest and change to my costume 😛 . There”s a little TV, radio and bed in there, and the name of the character I played is at the door. Erin (the actress who plays Erica) is super nice and a great actress. I worked with her a lot in the scenes I did, along with about 15 background actors (all kids around my age). It was just fun and exciting! I was a bit exhausted after wrapped because by the time I got home, it was past 1am!! 😐
Here is a clip of me in “Being Erica” season 2 “Cultural Revolution” and behind-the-scenes of making it. Click on the thumbnails below to view the videos!
Also check out some of the behind-the-scenes still images :).
