Jenny Yang has been cast as “Xing” a loyal triad assassin in American Horror Story co-creator Brad Falchuk and Byron Wu’s Netflix dark comedy, The Brothers Sun. Michelle Yeoh and Justin Chien will lead the series which is set in the world of Taipei gangsters.
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The comedian tells all about her path to Netflix’s ‘The Brothers Sun.”
Four years ago, Jenny Yang reached a plateau in her career. She’d achieved many of her goals — she was a successful stand-up comedian, she’d launched her own comedy festival focused on platforming Asian American talent, she’d worked as a staff writer on Busy Tonight — so she sat down to chart something new. Yang decided that what she really wanted to do was become an action comedy star. She trained for a half-marathon and took up kickboxing training. But then a casting director for a new Netflix show about a Taiwanese crime family was scouring the internet during a late-in-the-game search and came across one of her viral stand-up videos. “All they told me was that it was a gang drama and I wouldn’t have to do any accents,” Yang says.