In this special episode of the Hyphen in Hollywood podcast, director Chris Naoki Lee made his return to the podcast - and he brought some friends too. In this actor's roundtable podcast, we were able to get the main cast of dinner party - Chris Naoki Lee, Imani Hakim, Kara Wang, Kausar Mohammed and Allison Paige - together in the same room to recor…

Emily Teerasuphaset (เอมิลี ธีรสุภะเสฏร์) (she/her), the writer and director of the upcoming short Soul Food, joined the Hyphen in Hollywood podcast to discuss her project, whose crowdfunding campaign is currently active and nearing its target goal. The short is a Thai language drama about a mother and daughter reconciling the love and hurt in thei…

Daniel Park, co-founder and CCO of Transparent Arts sat down with Christian to discuss his latest TV production venture, a K-drama series, IDOL: THE COUP, which is currently airing on JTBC every Monday and Tuesday and streaming worldwide on iQIYI. IDOL: THE COUP is unique in premise due its specific focus on a failing k-pop girl group who must band…

South Asian director Maureen Bharoocha stopped by the podcast to chat about her recent work directing an episode in the upcoming second season of “Saved by the Bell," now available on Peacock. Maureen is part of NBCU’s Female Forward program that aims to create gender parity in scripted television, and along with its counterpart the Emerging Direct…

Writer, director, actor and secret tattoo artist Justin Chon dropped by the Hyphen in Hollywood podcast to discuss his latest film, BLUE BAYOU, which hit theaters Friday, 9/17. We discussed the timely and resonant themes his films address and the power film has in operating as a vehicle for urgent social change.…

The Hyphen in Hollywood podcast is back for our second season! Kicking things off is Jayden Zhang, who recently hopped on a Zoom with Christian Ting. A few days ahead of the worldwide release of his new movie, SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS, Jayden and Christian had a fun discussion about getting involved in the MCU, working with the leg…

An hour before the city-wide curfew was instituted in Los Angeles, Associate Director of BLD PWR Lacy Lew Nguyen Wright sat down in our “mobile studio” - Christian’s car - to discuss the state of the LA protests from the frontlines, the role of her actor/activist boss Kendrick Sampson, and a summary of hope for the Asian American community during t…

Actor, activist and showrunner Kal Penn sat down with us to discuss his new show Sunnyside, bringing his real-life White House experience to TV, and figuring out which candidate Kumar would vote for in our latest episode.

Albert Tsai sat down with us to discuss the journey making Abominable, giant blueberries, and being part of a historic film. All while being a full time student!

We sat down with Christopher Naoki Lee of AMC’s hit horror anthology series, The Terror: Infamy. We discussed the show’s unique and timely premise, working with George Takei, and finding out who’s a bigger fan of Terrace House.

Actresses Li Jun Li and Celia Au, stars of the latest hit Netflix show WU ASSASSINS discuss their show, love of classic Hong Kong movies, and the proud culture of martial arts.

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