Action-movie star couple on their martial arts reality television show, and starring opposite Nicolas Cage
- Hong Kong-based actress JuJu Chan and film director Antony Szeto talk about their reality show that gives martial arts novices training in different disciplines
- Hosted by Chan, who recently starred with Nicolas Cage in action film Jiu Jitsu, each episode ends with the apprentice fighting a real martial arts practitioner
Newlyweds JuJu Chan and Antony Szeto are constantly fighting. To be precise, they’re practising their martial arts daily and vigorously.
Szeto is a veteran of action-film making who coordinated the stunts for The Meg (2018) and worked on Ghost In The Shell (2017), and directed the Jackie Chan-produced Wushu in 2008 and Fist Of The Dragon, produced by Roger Corman, in 2015.
As Hong Kong’s new first couple of movie action and martial arts – they married on October 1, 2019 – this year would seem to be one of shelved projects and cancelled films, but they say they’ve never been busier.
“If not for the pandemic, this year I would [have been] really, really busy flying to different countries for film projects, but all of them got pushed,” Chan says. “The good thing about us being in the same industry is we’re always talking about what we can do, bouncing ideas around, and we thought this is the perfect time to start something.”