No picture with this anecdote, for reasons that will become apparent later.
This trip continues to get more and more surreal. So I go out for dinner and drinks last night with the fanboy's fanboy, Bey Logan (previously mentioned here). We're in a nice sushi restaurant in NoHo and Bey asks me what I haven't done in Hong Kong yet that I really wanted to. I sort of laughed and said, "Well, I'd really love to meet Gordon Liu, haha!" Bey doesn't even blink or miss a beat, but says, "Well, I know Gordon's shooting a television series for TVB right now, but let's see if we can get him on the line," and pulls out his Blackberry. Gordon didn't pick up, but Bey left him a message in Cantonese (grr, I really need to take lessons when I get home!), and guess what? About an hour later, we were hanging out at "the hottest club in town" (Hint: when your travel guide says that someplace is "the hottest club in town," you can bet your bottom dollar that it's not!). All of a sudden, Bey's Blackberry rings, and when he looks at the screen he grabs my arm and pulls us over to a (comparatively) quiet corner, answers it, and after a bit of Cantonese, puts me on the phone with the "Master Killer" himself, Mister Gordon Liu. Now Gordon's English isn't perfect, but he was able to say "Hello Jason, so sorry I can't meet you but I'm shooting TV show now. Maybe next time you call Bey and I come to see you!" I said a few sentences in my (I'm sure) heavily accented Cantonese, and then said in English that I was a huge fan, had seen all of his movies, he is my favorite martial arts actor of all time, blahblahblah, etc. Gordon replied back in two languages, "Do tze!!! Do tze!!! Thank you!!! Thank you!!! Bye bye!!! Bye!!!" and then he was gone. It wasn't a face-to-face meeting, but it was completely cool to meet one of my idols. Right up there with the time I helped Beck pick out vitamin C in the Whole Foods Market in DC, but that's another story.
This trip continues to get more and more surreal. So I go out for dinner and drinks last night with the fanboy's fanboy, Bey Logan (previously mentioned here). We're in a nice sushi restaurant in NoHo and Bey asks me what I haven't done in Hong Kong yet that I really wanted to. I sort of laughed and said, "Well, I'd really love to meet Gordon Liu, haha!" Bey doesn't even blink or miss a beat, but says, "Well, I know Gordon's shooting a television series for TVB right now, but let's see if we can get him on the line," and pulls out his Blackberry. Gordon didn't pick up, but Bey left him a message in Cantonese (grr, I really need to take lessons when I get home!), and guess what? About an hour later, we were hanging out at "the hottest club in town" (Hint: when your travel guide says that someplace is "the hottest club in town," you can bet your bottom dollar that it's not!). All of a sudden, Bey's Blackberry rings, and when he looks at the screen he grabs my arm and pulls us over to a (comparatively) quiet corner, answers it, and after a bit of Cantonese, puts me on the phone with the "Master Killer" himself, Mister Gordon Liu. Now Gordon's English isn't perfect, but he was able to say "Hello Jason, so sorry I can't meet you but I'm shooting TV show now. Maybe next time you call Bey and I come to see you!" I said a few sentences in my (I'm sure) heavily accented Cantonese, and then said in English that I was a huge fan, had seen all of his movies, he is my favorite martial arts actor of all time, blahblahblah, etc. Gordon replied back in two languages, "Do tze!!! Do tze!!! Thank you!!! Thank you!!! Bye bye!!! Bye!!!" and then he was gone. It wasn't a face-to-face meeting, but it was completely cool to meet one of my idols. Right up there with the time I helped Beck pick out vitamin C in the Whole Foods Market in DC, but that's another story.
3 comments:
OMG!!! I don't know whether to be more blown away that you talked to Gordon Lui on the phone, or that you helped Beck pick out vitamins..
O.M.G. THIS IS SO TOTALLY MAJOR!!! You talked on the phone with Master Lau Ka Fai!!! Absolutely ideal way to end your HK trip [this time] !!!
[Haha! no dissing Michael Wong really, but this guy so needs to brush up his acting]
Please tell the Beck story! When was that?
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