By the end of the powerplay, Bangladesh was 54-3 and reeling from some splendid catches.
“He’s the guy you think he is,” Wang said with a grin. “He doesn’t turn it off when he’s not on set.”Ho happily points out that “Karate Kid: Legends” is reinforcing how his 12-year-old twin sons are growing up without negative Asian stereotypes like he did. He’d rather a story have no Asians if the characters are going to be the butt of the joke. That history of stereotyping of Asian men is why he initially declined appearing on O’Brien’s show.
“I thought ”Oh, he’s a tall guy. I’m a short, Asian guy. They’re just going to goof on me. They’re going to go off on me,’ so I said, ‘You know, I’m gonna be out of town,’” Ho said.Luckily, the segments, which have earned millions of YouTube views, were crafted so Ho was the straight-man to O’Brien’s buffoonery.Twins Jonny and Ollie, in fact, are real-life karate kids. The boys, known as the “Twinjas,” know karate, mixed martial arts and other disciplines. They count Bruce Lee’s daughter, Shannon, as a friend. They’ve appeared on “America’s Got Talent,” “Obi-Wan Kenobi” and taught Kevin Hart and Snoop Dogg moves. They love “Cobra Kai” for the drama and want to see “Legends” for Chan. They have since been introduced to the movie that started it all.
For Ollie, Miyagi was his favorite character.“I think that in the first Karate Kids, how the teacher was Asian, I think being a teacher is better than being a student,” he said.
Jonny says not every show or movie in this genre has to have an Asian lead, but when there is one, he takes note.
“I think that there’s definitely a lot of other movies and shows that have Asian leads, like Simu Liu, the first Asian superhero,” Jonny said, referring to Marvel’s “Keeping your tax documents organized is a great practice regardless of your filing year. Having your tax documents in a folder on your personal computer, even if it’s pictures of the documents, can help you have everything in the same place, said Tyler Horn, a certified financial planner and head of planning at Origin, a financial planning app.
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