‘Forces can try and derail you and become an obstacle for you not to succeed,’ says the English-born actor. ‘But they just become stepping stones. I feel like the luckiest man alive.’
In March, at the afterparty for the premiere of “3 Body Problem” at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Benedict Wong assumed his alter ego. The English actor, known for playing stoic but sly tough guys, morphed into DJ Obi-Wong, spinning electronic dance records, a wide smile on his face and a sleek virtual reality headset perched on his head. He was clearly having a blast. He has earned it. A little more than 10 years ago, Wong was wondering if he still had a career.
“I told him to give me three years, and if it didn't work out I’d do whatever he said,” Wong recalled. “It was that kind of dutiful Asian father-son relationship.” Wong acted steadily, if not always to great personal or financial reward. He preferred good stage roles to lesser screen roles. On the screen, “I literally played six gangsters in one year. I turned the seventh one down, being all gangstered out. I do have my inner gangster chakra, but you don’t want to play that all the time.
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