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Cheng Kai-Chung, also known as Andy Cheng, is a Hong Kong actor, stuntman, choreographer, martial artist, and director. He was a prominent member of the Jackie Chan Stunt Team from the late 1990s to early 2000s until he broke out on his own and became a member of the Stunts Unlimited team.
May 12, 2023 · From humble roots in the Hong Kong neighbourhood of Kwun Tong, Andy Cheng Kai-chung has risen to become one of Hollywood’s top action directors and fight choreographers.
Andy Cheng is a stunt performer, coordinator and director who has worked on many action movies and TV shows, such as Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Rush Hour 2 and Into the Badlands. He is also a member of the Jackie Chan Stunt Team and has appeared in music videos.
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Sep 30, 2021 · Andy Cheng is a Hong Kong-born stuntman and fight choreographer who has worked on Marvel's 'Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings' and 'Knights of the Zodiac: Saint Seiya', a live action adaptation of a Japanese anime. He talks to Variety about his vision for Asian superheroes and his collaboration with Mackenyu, the son of Sonny Chiba.
- Background & Influences
- Life with The Jackie Chan Stunt Team
- The Life of A Hong Kong Stuntman
- Working with The Rock
- Working with Garrett Warren
- Andy Cheng on Working with Isaac Florentine
- Working on “Into The Badlands”
- Andy Cheng on Working on Shang-Chi with The Late Brad Allan
- Brad Allan’s Massive Break
- Andy Cheng’s Sources of Fight Inspo
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Thanks, we definitely believe in the benefit of martial arts! So, let’s begin with how you got started in martial arts. How old were you when you started learning martial arts and what different disciplines have you studied? Well, I started very young, but I wasn’t really in a school when I started. My brother learned Hung Kuen, so I started when I...
Whoa, incredible! So what kind of mentorship or guidance did Jackie give you as you worked with him on the Jackie Chan Stunt Team? Well, we’re really like family. He’d let us put things together how we wanted, then he’d come on to either correct it or put his own input on it, but the whole process is everyone working together like a team or a famil...
“Drunken Master II” is definitely a classic! So, what is the worst injury you’ve experienced in your stunt career, and how did you work around it? Probably my worst injury was when I dislocated my elbow working with the TV company. It was a whole year after that where I couldn’t really bend my arm. The one that almost killed me was on “Rush Hour 2”...
You’ve also worked on movies with The Rock, beginning with “The Scorpion King”. What was it like working with The Rock on his first movie as a leading man? “The Scorpion King” was interesting. It was The Rock’s first movie, and I was there when they were doing reshoots and helping with the fight scenes. The opening sequence wasn’t in the movie orig...
Yeah, that’s a great fight scene, and the whip fight at the end with Garrett Warren leading the villains was also fantastic! That was actually Garrett’s first movie as a stunt man after he lost his eye, and I suggested him to the director. So, we had three guys with the two whips each, and the whip fight in the movie is actually about ten percent o...
And a great one! Looking ahead now, you also worked with Isaac Florentineon his movie “U.S. Seals II”. What can you share about that experience and working with an acclaimed martial arts filmmaker as Isaac Florentine? Isaac is amazing, and he’s a really, really crazy, die-hard martial arts fan, and I was really lucky to work with him. And I even go...
Yeah, Isaac is a true martial arts nerd! You also worked as an action director on the TV series “Into the Badlands”. What can you share about working on the show and putting together its amazing wire-fu driven fight scenes? That goes back to when I went back to China to work on “Tai Chi Zero”, which Stephen Fung directed. Stephen was also one of th...
Jackie’s a quick study! Looking a bit into the superhero world now, you were also one of the fight choreographers on Marvel’s “Shang-Chi & the Legend of the Ten Rings”. What can you share about working on Marvel’s big kung fu movie? What was it like working with some of the incredible performers from the Martial Club and your fellow Jackie Chan Stu...
So, that’s how I came on board, and then Brad also told me “This is the first martial arts movie with this kind of scale, with a big studio and huge budget”, so we knew this was a big opportunity for Chinese culture and martial arts. You know you’re part of a franchise, but with this one, you’re saying “Okay, we want to make this one the best we ca...
So, what would you say are some martial arts films you look to as a basis or inspiration for fight choreography? It’s got to be Jackie Chan! There are many, many different great ones – Sammo Hung has a really good style, Yuen Woo-ping has a really good style, Ching Siu-tung has a really good style, Donnie has a really good style, as does John Wick....
Learn about the career and influences of Andy Cheng, a stuntman and filmmaker who worked with Jackie Chan and other action legends. Find out how he started in martial arts, what he learned from Jackie, and what projects he is involved in now.
Andy Cheng (鄭繼宗) is a stuntman, stunt coordinator, and 2nd unit director known for his work with the Jackie Chan Stunt Team on Who Am I?, the Rush Hour series, and many more, as...
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Cheng Kai-Chung, also known as Andy Cheng, is a Hong Kong actor, stuntman, choreographer, martial artist, and director. He was a prominent member of the Jackie Chan Stunt Team from the late 1990s to early 2000s until he broke out on his own and became a member of the Stunts Unlimited team.
