While the series is still available on Max, it has cracked the top 10 viewed shows on Netflix since its debut this month, which is a reason for optimism for star Olivia Cheng, who plays Ah Toy, the madam and deadly assassin who works with the Hop Wei In season two, she falls in love[...]
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"If anything can be said about Warrior, with Bruce Lee in our corner, our indomitable spirit is REAL! And so, my wish is that the huge global Netflix audience LOVES Warrior, and from that Love more goodness flows – in the form of greater recognition for our talented cast and crew who deserve all the[...]
In attendance at the June 29th unveilings were executive producer (and Lee's daughter) Shannon Lee and stars Olivia Cheng, Perry Yung, Dianne Doan, and Andrew Koji Artists featured were Vincent Ballantine (New York), Swank One (Los Angeles), and Vogue + Agana (San Francisco).
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"Seeing Warrior return for our 3rd season during this 50th anniversary[...]
In the latest promo, Max highlights the female characters starting with Ah Toy (Olivia Cheng), who lives a double life as a brothel owner and deadly assassin, "It's Chinatown So you'd better learn to adapt."
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Also featured is Ah Toy's apprentice Lai (Jenny Umbhau)[...]
The series also stars Olivia Cheng, Kieran Bew, Joanna Vanderham, Tom Weston-Jones, Langley Kirkwood, Joe Taslim, Dustin Nguyen, Céline Buckens, Miranda Raison, and Chen Tang.
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Warrior is produced for Max by Perfect Storm Entertainment, Tropper Ink Productions,[...]
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Other players include Ah Toy (Olivia Cheng), a madam whose cunning is matched by her fierce abilities as a deadly assassin; Big Bill O'Hara (Kieran Bew), an Irish police officer often teetering on the brink of his questionable morals while trying to prevent a full-blown race war[...]
Ah Toy (Olivia Cheng), who's aligned with the Hop Wei, is probably the best well-written madame character on TV Not only does she, along with Mai Ling, have to work so much harder as a 19th-century woman to gain the respect of her male peers, but as a Jill-of-all-trades, does so much more to affect[...]
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A gritty, action-packed crime drama set during the brutal Tong Wars of San Francisco's Chinatown in the late 19th century, and based on the writings of martial arts legend Bruce Lee, the first two seasons, which premiered on Cinemax, are now streaming on HBO Max via HBO platforms.
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The series follows Ah Sam (Andrew Koji), a half-white Chinese man who comes to 1870s San Francisco in search of his sister Mai Ling (Diane Doan), only to step into a tangled internecine war between Chinese gangs led by Ah Toy (Olivia Cheng), the racist Irish mob and the cops Imagine Deadwood with Asian-Americans and[...]
He accepted and completed the film, but died tragically before the film's release in 1973.
Warrior stars Koji, Kieran Bew, Olivia Cheng, Dianne Doan, Dean Jagger, Langley Kirkwood, Hoon Lee, Christian McKay, Joe Taslim, Jason Tobin, Joanna Vanderham, Tom Weston-Jones, and Perry Yung.
How much of Lee's ideas will be retained for Tropper's series remains to[...]