‘Kung Fu’ Star Tzi Ma Explains Why This Asian Dad Is Unlike the Others You’ve Seen Him Play

“I wanted this kind of dad to be seen, because we have those dads out in our communities, and they don’t really get enough credit”

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With a decades-long list of credits ranging from “Rush Hour” to Disney’s live-action “Mulan,” Tzi Ma has earned his reputation as Hollywood’s go-to Asian dad dozens of times over. But even with his latest role, the actor continues to break new ground as the patriarch of the first Asian American family to anchor a broadcast television drama on The CW’s “Kung Fu” reboot.

“Saying that was totally in jest,” Ma said in an interview with TheWrap, downplaying his well-deserved boast. “I mean, it was just so many of them all at once that I was like, ‘Well, okay.’”

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