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Why Westworld Season 4 star Daniel Wu and director Lisa Joy click, his excitement over American Born Chinese, and his dream role
- Asian-American actor and sci-fi lover Wu relished the chance to be in Westworld Season 4, saying the genre is not common in Asia, where he made his name
- He will feature in upcoming Disney+ series American Born Chinese and wants to be ‘part of that change’ in which people see Asian-Americans in a different light
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The robots have won in season four of Westworld. Humans have become unwitting slaves, apart from a few “outliers”. Among them is Jay, a rebel soldier played by Daniel Wu. As enemy “hosts” close in, Jay worries that a mole has infiltrated his unit.
With a cast that includes Evan Rachel Wood, Thandiwe Newton, Ed Harris and Jeffrey Morgan, Westworld presents a distinctively dystopian vision of the future. Technology can recreate startlingly realistic versions of the Wild West and the Roaring Twenties, but it also has developed sentient, and deadly, robots.
A star in Asia, Wu has focused more on the West in recent years. He produced and starred in Into the Badlands and has a recurring role in the upcoming Disney+ series American Born Chinese.
In 2021 he appeared in Reminiscence with Hugh Jackman and Thandiwe Newton. That film was written and directed by Lisa Joy, who created the Westworld series with Jonathan Nolan.
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