The Sympathizer's Fred Nguyen Khan on performing stunts and training with Shaolin monks
The Canadian actor and stunt performer puts his martial arts skills to good use in the new HBO miniseries
Fred Nguyen Khan is a trilingual actor and stunt performer from Montreal who's been studying martial arts since he was four. That resume helped him beat out countless actors in a worldwide casting call for his latest role on the new HBO miniseries The Sympathizer, which is based on the Pulitzer-winning novel of the same name. Khan talks to Q's Tom Power about shooting fight scenes with a legendary action director, mastering kung-fu at the Shaolin Temple in China and acting in Vietnamese for the first time.
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Interview with Fred Nguyen Khan produced by Vanessa Greco.