Action-movie star couple on their martial arts reality television show, and starring opposite Nicolas Cage

Hong Kong-based actress JuJu Chan and film director Antony Szeto talk about their reality show that gives martial arts novices training in different disciplines

Hosted by Chan, who recently starred with Nicolas Cage in action film Jiu Jitsu, each episode ends with the apprentice fighting a real martial arts practitioner

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Actress JuJu Chan (left) and her husband, film director Antony Szeto, at the Fringe Club in Central, Hong Kong. The couple have come up with a martial arts reality show called Fight’n Chance. Photo: Dickson Lee

Published: 4:45am, 22 Dec 2020Updated: 10:29am, 22 Dec 2020

Newlyweds JuJu Chan and Antony Szeto are constantly fighting. To be precise, they’re practising their martial arts daily and vigorously.

Szeto is a veteran of action-film making who coordinated the stunts for The Meg (2018) and worked on Ghost In The Shell (2017), and directed the Jackie Chan-produced Wushu in 2008 and Fist Of The Dragon, produced by Roger Corman, in 2015.

For her part, Chan kicked heads and raised eyebrows with featured roles in Netflix series Wu Assassins, and in the Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon sequel Sword of Destiny (2016); and the lead role in Jiu Jitsu (2020), an action film co-starring Tony Jaa and Nicolas Cage.

As Hong Kong’s new first couple of movie action and martial arts – they married on October 1, 2019 – this year would seem to be one of shelved projects and cancelled films, but they say they’ve never been busier.

Covid-19 has seen projects shelved and films cancelled, but Szeto and Chan have been kept busy with their new reality show. Photo: Dickson Lee