Lewis Tan on Losing 'Shang-Chi' & Booking 'Mortal Kombat' (Exclusive)

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.TheLewisTan feels “honored and happy' to see more diverse faces in major films: “I’m grateful to have that opportunity to be part of that change that I didn't get to see when I was growing up.”

, Tan told ET's Ash Crossan,"I just lost a crazy job -- a really, really high-caliber level job -- and I heard that news on a plane to Japan and I was, like, devastated."Into the Badlands, Tan was a fan-casting favorite for Marvel's Master of Kung Fu. Then he got the call that he didn't get it.

"I did this mediation course, and I came back and then I was on my way to Nashville, Tennessee, to race cars at NASCAR -- I was like, 'Maybe I'm the first Asian person to ever be in this place before!' -- and all of a sudden I get a phone call saying I got the role in []," he says."I was supposed to drive a car that day and I ended up not doing it because I was like, 'Uh oh! I need to be safe now because I've got an opportunity here.

As for Shang-Chi,"A friend of mine, Simu, got that part," Tan says."And I think he's going to do a fantastic job with the material."

 

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