So I got TMZ’D, they got me good. Or did they? How an innocent lunch with a friend turns into me being the butt of a racial funny attack, is as my mother would say…“Jejus! Too many Crajjji!!!”
Most of the video was pretty funny to me actually. I believe we have to be able to laugh at ourselves at times and take a few to the kidney. It’s part of the job description. Get paid to play pretend for a living= periodic burning at the stake.
However, a bit of this one felt like they were looking for something but just got lazy and went for the easiest jabs. Sorta flattered they actually knew I was from Georgia. Maybe that’s why they went for it so heavy, it’s kinda on the Racist Fence when the Chinese dude actually speaks English as a first language. Also, I doubt anyone who works at TMZ is truely a flagrant racist. TMZ do what TMZ do. It’s not the Rachel Maddow show.
The most disturbing and biggest lesson I learned from getting DMZ’d is … ”NEVER TRUST A SMILING ASIAN GUY WITH A CAMERA”. The guy who did the interview was in fact Asian. The TMZ Ambassador appeared out of nowhere, Bam! In front of me, with a big smile. Hey, Sung Kang, I’m down with the AA peeps. Hey, I met you before at some Asian American Film Festival. Hey it’s cool to see more Asian brothers in Hollywood. Hey, you think there will ever be an Asian president? Hey thanks brother. Brother? Dam! Brothers like you who needs the Clan? At least with the clanI know what’s behind the sheet. With this dude I felt safe, protected, with my peeps if you will. NOT! You ACTOR, you TARGET BITCH! 
The TMZ Ambassador reminds me of that TRAITOR character from Bruce Lee movie, Chinese Connection maybe… The dude with round spectacles that sells out his own people for…Uhh, I don’t even know. But hey, just because the dude is Asian doesn’t mean he owes me anything. He has a job to do, brother has to eat. No judgement.
At the end of the day it’s not really a big deal. This stuff is the easy and the fun part of being in Hollyweird. I actually have to thank TMZ, before today I was “that Chinese Guy with long conditioned hair from the Fast and Furious movies”. Now people know my name. SUNG KANG Bi@#hes!!!
But importantly, things like the TMZ VID hopefully help simplify how stupid these stereotypes are to the masses. If I have to be the butt of a joke and get knocked around a bit to help make this shit go away… Well, it’s all worth it. Having something to fight for, keeps the fire burning. Life is a lot more exciting this way. Gives one purpose beyond all the B.S. I’ve learned that to play the Hollywood Game you have to have thick ass skin. REALLY THICK! No flesh, just hard bone and thick thick skin. But hey, it’s all been worth it. And it still continues to be worth it. Wait til you see FAST & FURIOUS 5, gigantic leap forward… We’ve made some movies that entertained, provoked and questioned the status quo. Not bad for a Chinese kid from Georgia.
To wrap things up I’ll share what fellow offender Justin Lin’s father, Mr. Lin Pao Foo Lang Shoa Hung Way Lup, said.(Just kidding)…Mr.Lin told Justin when the Hollywood critics reamed him a new Asshole for his first studio movie -ANNAPOLIS.
“When it gets tough is when your going to know what your made of, get up or get out of it!” (sounds like a bad line from a Jean Claude VanDamme movie, I know…) But makes sense right?
Or maybe it sounded more like this “ching chong ching chong fung lung pung dung rama rama DING DONG!” HA!!!!! LOL!
Good night party people!
It looked like it was all in good fun. Glad you made the best of it.
You’re right to let this roll off your back, Sung. TMZ is worthless and not worth any mental anguish. IMO, you didn’t come off looking or sounding badly, anyway. The thing that I noticed the most is that TMZ seems to have a team of squirrels doing their editing.
(And why does racist stuff = all in good fun?)
was the cameraman related to Ken Jeong by any chance?
Hangover #2 with more gay Mr.Chow lol
Can’t blame the Asian videographer. He was just reporting, it was the producers that changed what was a fairly fair interview into a stereotypical racial cesspool.
Asians have fairly thick skin.
Michelle, all in good fun was the asian videographer having some fun with a fellow asian in the business. It’s not like he was attacking Sung with racism, did you even read Sung’s article? They both poked fun, Sung’s MSG comment was hilarious.
But thanks Michelle for trying to make it look like I was saying something I wasn’t.
P.S. I’m a huge Sung Kang fan and I would never defend someone attacking him in that way, which they weren’t.
Thought you were Korean-American… Also we met at some AA talent show or something. I can haz interview?
Looks like Rob Jones missed the point of the whole article. It wasn’t “Sung and interviewer poke fun at each other.” It was about “Sung is racially ambushed by TMZ but he realizes he has to have thick skin.”
Maybe the field interviewer wasn’t being racist and didn’t attack him, but the edited TMZ clip definitely was racist… or do you think the final clip was “all in good fun,” Mr Jones? If you do, that is the problem with lots of whites in society today… they don’t REALIZE when something is racist. Then they bring out that whole “sorry IF we offended anyone” speech.
Tmz makes fun of everyone but sometimes they do take it a little to far.
and they were being Racist.
But I do love your attitude about the the whole thing. By not letting it get to you. Best way to be. Always let haterz hate on. If you got haterz that means your on top of your game. when you dont have haterz then you have something to worry about. You slip on your game.
TMZ does make fun of everyone, it’s what they do. But they were not going all West Burrow Baptist Church kind of hate racism they were going all Chris Rock kind of racism the way a black guy makes fun of black guys. They were trying to be funny and it didn’t work.
TMZ ambushes everyone, and the cameraman who was asian probably just thought it would be light hearted fun to ask silly asian questions. Then the TMZ editing made it dumb. But the cameraman did not racially ambush Sung.
As Sung said, “Also, I doubt anyone who works at TMZ is truely a flagrant racist.” Totally agreed, they wouldn’t post a piece that was flagrant hate racism. And that’s the whole point, they weren’t hating, spreading hate, starting a hate crime or however you want to phrase it.
But thanks for attacking me as if I was being West Burrow racist and I didn’t get it because I’m a white guy.
I have much love for Sung.
I luv U, Tiffini! lol would you care to share your background and ethnicity? I have a suspicion from experience how a person would talk like that, instead of the normal apologists.
@Rob: that’s kind of the problem with Asians, most racism is indirect and making mockery out of “ching chong” instead of the overt and blatant 80s auto-wars kind. it’s funny if you accept it superficially, but going into deeper levels it’s still dehumanizing.
I’m surprised you other commenters aren’t attacking Sung for doing the same thing you’re complaining about is his own article.
You’ve all made me sorry I posted a comment on one of my favorite actors articles. Lesson learned, trolls be damned.
I love asians and Sung Kang, one of my favorite movies is Tokyo Drift and I have a site for it http://TokyoDriftMovie.us
Please stop referring to me in your comments, you’ve ruined the comments by needlessly attacking me instead complimenting Sung on a great article.
Sung, been a fan since BLT! Glad to read how you have handled the whole situation. You’re right, you gotta let it roll off you and you have to have skin that thick to make it in HWood. Part of the territory, I guess. That guy does have to eat, after all. I just hope he doesn’t eat as well as you do. Oh, I’m J/k. Or am I? Of course!
Dear Mr. SUNG KANG,
To me you will always be That Hilarious Hot Asian Guy from Georgia with the Long Conditioned Hair who was in that one movie. And nothing can ever change that.
Unless you shave your head.
Which, just, no.
@chunk$- I am half Italian and half native american. I come from a big adoptive Familiy. My parents adopted a bunch of kids that all have different cultures and back arounds. I have seen racism on so many levels towards my sibs growning up and how my parents handled it. It would piss me off when it would come towards one of my sibs that I love so much to where I want to strap on my J’s but my parents handled it the legal way and won.
Plus I live in da hood and its hood analogy.
Happy Birthday Sung Kang (Han from Tokyo Drift and BLT) http://t.co/pPYPPlm
Sung…I too was taken back one by the way they portrayed you as a sterotypical Asian American Male.
But let me say this,you have more character,substance,then any other God damn sense …then alot of people do in these days.Kay,it’s 2011…! And it is not just because I think your beautiful,sexy,and jealous that any other woman gets to keep you.It is because of what you say!!!You inspire me everyday.I watch your post and think,Wow,here is an intelliget manwho knows what really works,how we as people make the world go round.
So,yeah I am from a little town in New York but,I listen to you.I get concerned when you post things like at the hospital …this sucks.
Just know,that I love you,and that despite how this news cast portrayed you,your true fans always will veiw you as much,much more.Love ,Toni
I would have disemboweled every single one of those pansy boys from TMZ and made them eat it. And when they pooped it out I would have made them eat that, too.
The TMZ segment was kinda stupid and offensive but, as you said, I think they were just trying to be funny.
Don’t feel embarrassed about your interview. You weren’t naive to talk to him. How could you know what they would do with it? Plus, your joke about MSG was funny
I am not too sure why, but I am kind of angry. Maybe I feel identified in some way -or in many ways. If something, I’d dare to say that your fans and the public follow you for your personality and the way that you connect with them through the big screen. It is powerful. I admire how well you’ve dealt with it. Stay the same, regardless.
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