04-15-2015, 11:34 AM
The interview fell through, but I'll share it here for DOOM eyes only because it's a funny DM story.
I just did an interview with Dustin Nguyen for Man with the Iron Fists 2 (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.kungfumagazine.com/ezine/article.php?article=1216">http://www.kungfumagazine.com/ezine/art ... ticle=1216</a><!-- m -->). It was a promo job, but I did want to chat with Dustin because he's been doing some good films lately, which I've reviewed here. The other interviewee was Eugenia Yuan, the daughter of the legendary Cheng Pei Pei. I didn't know her from Eve, so I did my usual background web search, and every major English source (IMDB, wikipedia, etc) reported that she was on the Olympic team for Rhythmic Gymnastics and ranked 4th in the world. Now, as y'all know, I went deep into the gymno world with my daughter and have tremendous respect for rhythmic gymno and there's no way any American was ranked 4th. We suck at that sport. So I checked with the NGB of gymnastics, an org with which we were formally members, and sure enough, she was no where to be found on the Olympic team listings. The U.S. doesn't even field complete teams for rhythmic. After a lot of websearching, I found an old article that said she was one of the top four Americans to watch at the national qualifiers, but she did NOT make the team. I was totally prepared to out her politely in my intro to her interview, but the interview fell apart due to technical difficulties and then scheduling.
I might get another chance. She's in CTHD2.
I just did an interview with Dustin Nguyen for Man with the Iron Fists 2 (<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.kungfumagazine.com/ezine/article.php?article=1216">http://www.kungfumagazine.com/ezine/art ... ticle=1216</a><!-- m -->). It was a promo job, but I did want to chat with Dustin because he's been doing some good films lately, which I've reviewed here. The other interviewee was Eugenia Yuan, the daughter of the legendary Cheng Pei Pei. I didn't know her from Eve, so I did my usual background web search, and every major English source (IMDB, wikipedia, etc) reported that she was on the Olympic team for Rhythmic Gymnastics and ranked 4th in the world. Now, as y'all know, I went deep into the gymno world with my daughter and have tremendous respect for rhythmic gymno and there's no way any American was ranked 4th. We suck at that sport. So I checked with the NGB of gymnastics, an org with which we were formally members, and sure enough, she was no where to be found on the Olympic team listings. The U.S. doesn't even field complete teams for rhythmic. After a lot of websearching, I found an old article that said she was one of the top four Americans to watch at the national qualifiers, but she did NOT make the team. I was totally prepared to out her politely in my intro to her interview, but the interview fell apart due to technical difficulties and then scheduling.
I might get another chance. She's in CTHD2.
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