Among the Stars

As I came out of the concert into the steamy Hong Kong night, I couldn't believe what I saw: Josie Ho was just standing around on the sidewalk, talking with her friends! It took me a while to get up the courage to speak to her, which turned out to be unnecessary, as she was completely approachable and friendly. We talked a little bit about some of her film work (she speaks in flawless, slightly accented English), how she prefers singing in Mandarin to Cantonese, and how Hong Kong celebs tend to be more down-to-earth than their American counterparts!


Josie was certainly down-to-earth, as she was happy to pose for a picture with me, and even introduced me to her circle of friends, including her husband Conroy Chan, who was in the boyband mockumentary The Heavenly Kings with Daniel Wu and is currently in the band 24 Herbs. After the concert, the party moved to a small club a few blocks away, and I was invited to join everyone. Needless to say, I was completely blown away.


Here's me with Phat from Hardpack. We talked about Hong Kong films for a while (he complimented me on my Cantonese!) and music as well. His favotite rapper? Chinese-American phenom Jin, of course!


At the club, Conroy (right) introduced me to his friend, actor Daniel Wu (left). Daniel is an ABC (American Born Chinese) who came to Hong Kong and is pretty much taking the movie world by storm right now. I complimented Daniel on his movie The Heavenly Kings, in which he and his friends pulled a huge prank on the Hong Kong entertainment circle by pretending to start a boy band, and filming the ridiculous results. I said it must have been fun to play at being a pop star, getting up on stage and dancing around while lip-synching like a teenager with a hairbrush in front of the mirror, but Daniel was quick to correct me. "Are you kidding? I was petrified! I had to do that in fromt of 40,000 screaming girls, it was craziness!!" All these people were so nice, with no ego trips at all. PS - Hey, Conroy, thanks for buying me a beer. I owe you one!