From his early days as an accidental actor, starting with a year-long national tour of Peasant Prince: Story of Mao's Last Dancer (Monkey Baa Theatre Co, winner of Sydney Theatre Awards Best Production for Children, 2016), Edric has been steadily honing his stage and screen craft with credits spanning across theatre, films, shorts, commercials and corporate training. He recently wrapped shooting as a principal cast for upcoming SBS miniseries New Gold Mountain (Goalpost Pictures, 2021). Edric’s background in Pilates movement training has served him well to meet the physical rigours of acting. Being a paper geek, Edric also channels his creativity as an origami artist commissioning paper models for commercial campaigns and film projects such as I Am Mother with Rose Byrne and Hillary Swank (Penguin Empire/Netflix, 2019). We hope you guys enjoy this episode and please share our podcast to other creators within the industry so we can all help each other. Thanks for listening to another episode and CHOOKAS to you!
Show Notes
From his early days as an accidental actor, starting with a year-long national tour of Peasant Prince: Story of Mao's Last Dancer (Monkey Baa Theatre Co, winner of Sydney Theatre Awards Best Production for Children, 2016), Edric has been steadily honing his stage and screen craft with credits spanning across theatre, films, shorts, commercials and corporate training. He recently wrapped shooting as a principal cast for upcoming SBS miniseries New Gold Mountain (Goalpost Pictures, 2021). Edric’s background in Pilates movement training has served him well to meet the physical rigours of acting. Being a paper geek, Edric also channels his creativity as an origami artist commissioning paper models for commercial campaigns and film projects such as I Am Mother with Rose Byrne and Hillary Swank (Penguin Empire/Netflix, 2019).
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Time stamp (begins after intro)
0:00 - Introduction to who Edric Hong is.
3:00 - How Edric pgot started in acting.
8:00 - Starting acting later in Life “acting chose me”.
11:40 - what was the reaction in regional Australia to Mao’s Last Dancer multicultural play.
13:15 - how important is telling. multicultural stories in Australia.
14:40 - coming into acting at age 39 did you feel imposter syndrome at all?
16:40 - what would you recommend for someone who is in their 40’s that is thinking about acting?
17:38 - how did you become so proficient in bringing your characters to life without the traditional “acting techniques” that actors are taught from a young age?
25:00 - the amount body language plays in acting and remembering your lines.
29:28 - Who Edric Hong gives CHOOKAS to
31:08 - what we wish Edric Hong CHOOKAS on (future project)
32:00 - Edric Hong’s day-to-day operations.
“The body never lies”
“Rely on your body and the emotional truth will come out”
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