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-- From Wong Fei Hung to Wushu Champion --
As a child, Angie Tsang Tze-Man idolized wushu champion turned action film star Jet Li. While barely in her teens, she followed in her hero’s footsteps by taking on the part of martial arts legend Wong Fei Hung in the Yuen Woo Ping-directed Iron Monkey (1993). And doing so, the vivacious female made cinematic history, since it’s not every day the Cantonese folk hero – portrayed by well-known men like Li, the late Kwan Tak Hing (in an astounding 99 films) and Jackie Chan (who made Wong Fei Hung a drunken boxing expert in Drunken Master (1978) and Drunken Master II (1994)) – gets played by a girl.  bc Magazine >>More<<