Starstruck (sort of)

While writing and shoveling down fries at Moca Cafe I saw 'Johnny' Nguyen walk in with a buddy that looked suspiciously like a Vietnamese version of Vin Diesel.  Now, you may not be able to pick Johnny out of an Asian crowd – and I couldn't either until I remembered that I saw this horrendous movie with my Dad before I left for Asia.  Words cannot begin to describe the schlock melodrama that invades this well casted but ultimately trite rendition of a refugee's family story.  I remembered laughing at the stilted accents that Johnny took on, but ya know what, I have to give him props for making it to this level.

He and his buddy discussed how to make it into more mainstream roles before his Vietnamese guests arrived, looking like the lost Eminem Asian posse.

I looked at his filmography online and it seems he also does some pretty amazing stuntwork, particularly the Green Goblin fight in Spiderman.

I can't help but think of K-Dawg and how if he gets out of Shakespeare, he too can shake his thing in Hollywood.

In any case, the guy seems all right.  A little arrogant as he asked me which movies I saw him in when clearly he hasn't been in that many stellar ones -- he also feigned forgetfulness when I mentioned which movie from which I recognized him.  Ha ha. 

But I didn't want to keep hating on the guy because there are a lack of quality Asian actors in Hollywood already, so I wished him luck on his next project and leave him to hug his darling nieces. Keep on truckin' Johnny. Hope to see you in a non-gansta, martial arts role sometimes, but until then, milk it for all it's worth.