Why Hollywood filmmakers are battling to employ brothers Andy and Brian Le.
“And I don’t blame them either,” says Andy Le.
But something went wrong with us.
Michelle Yeoh in ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’.David Bornfriend/A24
We accidentally believed our own hype a little too much and now we’re working in feature films."
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The brothers both helped stunt coordinatorTimothy Eulichchoreograph fight sequences and are also featured as onscreen performers.
Brian Le, Michelle Yeoh, Andy Le in ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’.A24
They brought this raw talent and energy to the film that radiates through the screen.
I loved working with those guys."
Remarkably, the siblings received very little training when they were first getting into martial arts.
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.
“I was formerly trained a little bit when I was a kid,” says Andy.
The pair honed their martial arts skills by watching videos on YouTube and old kung fu movies.
That’s exactly how we learned for the most part."
“We just picked up a camera one day,” says Andy.
“We would recreate some of the fight scenes we would watch in the most classic Hong Kong movies.
We would put our own flavor to it, and we would just put them up on YouTube.”
Over time, some of the Martial Club videos would attract hundreds of thousands and ultimately millions of views.
The pair began picking up jobs, with Brian working as Nick Frost’s stunt double onInto the Badlands.
“He was great,” says Le of theShaun of the Deadstar.
“He’s probably one of the funniest people I’ve ever met, on- and off-camera.”
Andy, meanwhile, collaborated with action legend Jackie Chan on a commercial in support of the conservation organizationWildAid.
[Laughs] I showed it back to him, and he just did it and did it better.
I told him, ‘This is your stuff.’
He’s like, ‘Yes, from 40 years ago.'"
Le got a big thumbs-up from Chan at the end of filming.
“They say, ‘Being covered by the dust of your master.’
Just being involved in that was a checkmark off my bucket list.”
The directors ofEverything Everywhere All At Oncealso discovered the brothers via their YouTube videos.
“I could not believe that they never went to the conventional [academies].
The Le brothers admit to having been in awe of the actress.
“Working with her, literally my knees would be shaking.
I guess it’s possible for you to call us the biggest fanboys.
She’s basically our kung fu heroine.
She’s one of the stars that we’ve looked up to since we were kids.
So that was quite an experience.”
“It was crazy, it was so wild,” he says.
From watching them onscreen to sharing the screen with them was a surreal moment.”
The Le brothers are hoping for plenty more surreal moments ahead.
Hmm, so how does their family feelnowabout them pursuing martial arts as a living?
And my mom’s like, ‘No!
You’re in too deep!'"
Everything Everywhere All at Onceis playing in limited theaters and will be released wide April 8.
Watch the film’s trailer below.
