{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Film Directors Workshop","title":"FDW EP15 Talking with Actor/ Action Director Sunny Pang - Recorded Oct 2021","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":5191,"description":"FDW is back!!! Huge apologies. But FDW will be back as regular as I can keep this up. A nice slate of new activities planned and new energy an vigour. Let me clear the backlogue first. I was worried that these were recorded some time back that its not relevant coz the subjects have went on to great things BUT I found the conversation still very interesting and even more so with some hindsight. Kindly enjoy Sunny when he just came back from hobnobbing with Forest Whitaker and Tom Hardy on the set of Havoc. 1. 00:00:00 Just back from shooting in a Gareth Edwards Hollywood movie \"Havoc\" in UK2. 00:00:24 How did Sunny Pang get into the industry in 19933. 00:03:31 1999 Sunny felt that he wanted to act more than doing ONLY stunts but after a lot of rejection, he became a bouncer in clubs.4. 00:04:20 Sunny gets casted in 'Perth: The Geylang Massacre\"5. 00:06:19 Working with Lim Kay Tong in 'Perth'6.  00:10:06 How disappointments affect his career7.  00:12:47 How Perth was not seen as a commercial success8.  00:14:04 Working with James Lee - a prominent Malaysian Director/Producer9. 00:14:20 Working with his Sifu ?Aleelb Said - a HK/Indonesian Martial Arts Master Action Director working in Asia.10. 00:15:16 Working with James Lee on \"Call if you need me\"  (2009)11.  00:17:16 Meeting Timo Tjahjanto the first time for \"Night Come for Us\"12.  00:18:07 Meeting \"The Raid\" Gareth Evans too.13. 00:18:25  Then \"Night Come for us\" production stalled during prepro training.14. 00:18:38 Then he was approached by Timo for \"Headshot\" since \"Night Come for Us\" stalled15. 00:20:37 Screening of \"Headshot\" in Toronto International Film Festival16. 00:21:50  Sunny recalls the first day of shoot for \"Headshot\"17. 00:24:30 Learning to hustle as an actor18. 00:26:52 Importance of being independent in getting jobs19. 00:32:44 On Singapore's potential in the international arena20. 00:37:13 Shooting for TV in Singapore - everything is too sanitised 21. 00:41:55 Shooting 'Gareth Evans...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/Uuc_7Isv3_0hysTs1pmgJsJGNWe-Ol3bOa-SFDdODKE/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzUzMDcvMTU3MjQx/Nzk0OS1hcnR3b3Jr/LmpwZw.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}