david carradine!

[doug maverick]

i don't know if anyone was there but david carradine was at, the big apple comic book convention(where i work) over this bitter cold weekend. It was pretty cool he answered questions about kill bill and about the old kung fu series. he's a cool guy he let everyone take pix and he gave autographs for free.

The guy even sang two songs to my surprise(and to everyone else for that matter)he could sing and play the guitar(considering it was out of toon) but the guy droped f bombs like nobodies buisness, he also talked about his martial arts traing on the second day and about his traing for kill bill even, about the fight betwenn him and micheal jai white and uma thruman. i had the "honor" of getting his lunch (a burger and fries)anyway he's coming back to the convention on april 3rd and 4th. you guys can tell me some of the questions you would like to ask him and i could relay them back to my boss.

[yutyeesam]

that's hilarious!

ask him if he feels guilty for taking what should've been bruce lee's role. i'm sure he never gets tired of hearing that one.

[yutyeesam]

oh yeah. also ask him to explain the circumstances surrounding his decision to be in EvilToons.

[doug maverick]

i asked him that personally! and he said the part was never mean't for bruce cause he did the green hornet and it made him look like a joke! so that how he was treated plus he was asian and the then racist (and even now) hollywood didn't wanna see an asian on t.v.( sh!t they barely had blacks on t.v.) so the part went david.

[SanSoo Student]

Ask him If it is true that he beat his wife up when he was drunk. :confused:

[Ikken Hisatsu]

meh carradines a ****ing poser. he had only heard the term kung fu twice when he started on that kung fu series. ask him how he feels about being a twat faced chump.

[The Willow Sword]

could any of you be so successful as he in the Martial arts FILM industry? i have spoken with Carradine as well(about his role in Circle of iron;another role that Lee was supposed to play but died before he could be in the film) and carradine seemed to be a decent fellow. but you know he is an actor,,,,so whats the big fukin deal? he was a gymnist and did some light weight boxing before he got into films,,he got trained for movie martial arts and decided to stick with it. he capitolized on the MA craze in the 70's and thats that.

sheesh, cant a guy make a livin' without being burned at the stake?;)

Peace, TWS

[SanSoo Student]

I just feel people should know his other side, I mean everyone is making him into some sort of Saint in the development of Kung Fu in the United States. Especially in IKF magazine, I mean he did help make Kung Fu known...I'll give him that.

I will give him respect as a MA actor...I'm just trying to be an @ss and give him a hard time:D

[MasterKiller]

Originally posted by The Willow Sword
could any of you be so successful as he in the Martial arts FILM industry? i have spoken with Carradine as well(about his role in Circle of iron;another role that Lee was supposed to play but died before he could be in the film) and carradine seemed to be a decent fellow. but you know he is an actor,,,,so whats the big fukin deal? he was a gymnist and did some light weight boxing before he got into films,,he got trained for movie martial arts and decided to stick with it. he capitolized on the MA craze in the 70's and thats that.

sheesh, cant a guy make a livin' without being burned at the stake?;) There is certainly a difference between making a living at something and exploiting something. Carradine has exploited and pimped his role as Cain since that show was cancelled. I mean, you don't see the guys from Starsky and Hutch in cop magazines or the Duke boys at Nascar events. He's been swinging from the nuts of that TV show for too long and has deluded himself into thinking he was somehow the vehicle for Chinese arts to spread in America. He thinks he's a cultural icon when in fact he's just a B-level actor with no range so he's trying to hang on to a TV show America outgrew a long time ago.

[yutyeesam]

...and he makes RAD Tai Chi videos. Almost as good as Bob Klein's, sans the moustache.