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Dragonslayer: A conversation with Byron Mann, star of the CBC mini-series Dragon Boys

From CBC.ca - Arts | TV

"The CBC-TV mini-series Dragon Boys opens with an unsettling one-two punch. A Chinese-Canadian teenager comes alive upon spotting a pretty Asian girl in a Vancouver arcade. A white friend says forget it, she's with the Dragon Boys. The first teen dismisses the threat of Asian gangs with a laugh, saying, "Every time two Chinese guys get together, white people think they're a gang." Next scene, a cleaver-bearing Dragon Boy visits a delinquent drug dealer. The armed enforcer has tattooed teardrops under his eyes that tally his every murder; and from the look he gives the dealer, it would appear that he is about to cry again." (Stephan Cole, January 5, 2007)

Continue reading the complete interview by Stephan Cole (CBC.ca) here.

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