Michelle Yeoh is reuniting with 'Shang-Chi' director Destin Daniel Cretton for his Disney+ series, 'American Born Chinese'.
Announced back in October, Destin Daniel Cretton's Disney+ series American Born Chinese has just announced its main cast members. The upcoming graphic novel adaptation is set to reunite the director of Marvel's Shang-Chi and the Legend of The Ten Rings with one of its most prominent cast members: superstar Michelle Yeoh is joining the main cast of the fantasy series.
COLLIDER VIDEO OF THE DAY Yeoh's nephew in the story, teenage boy Jin Wang, will be played by Ben Wang. The actor made his acting debut in the MacGyver reboot series, and ever since then has guest starred in The Last O.G., Search Party, and in the Hulu film Sex APPeal. Wang is a child of Taiwanese immigrants who is stuggling to figure out his identity in America, and the boy’s witty mother will be played by Yeo Yann Yann , with his hard-working father embodied by Chin Han .
Also in the cast is Hong Kong Film Awards nominee Daniel Wu, who is set to play another all-powerful god who enters our world in search of his son: the Monkey King, a Taoist deity who mastered all heavenly disciplines but was buried under a mountain for several hundred years.
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