No./8 “I feel as though I can do any action movie now”
IN THE SUMMER of 2017, Henry Golding did the Hollywood ‘water-bottle tour’: meeting casting directors sipping Evian, explaining he’d just wrapped debut feature . “Is that a web-series thing?” asked one. “Weird title you got there.” That “weird title” made $239 million worldwide from a $30 million budget and moved the British-Malaysian TV presenter onto the A-list. Now he has G.I. Joe actioner in the can, two sequels on: an intimate drama from director Hong Khaou, in which he plays a British-Vietnamese man wrestling with grief.
