Hunky Chinese Canadian triplets make it big in China fashion, film – with roles in Jackie Chan movie and Hollywood blockbuster
There aren’t too many tall, handsome, muscled, university-educated actor triplets of Chinese descent. Raised in Canada, the film-star Luu brothers are making the most of their unique assets and carving out a niche in China
The Luu triplets were once on course for a fairly standard middle-class Canadian life – graduate from college, embark on a career, settle down. Then Hollywood intervened with a more exciting script that saw the trio star in a blockbuster film, rise to fame in Asia, model for major international fashion brands and act alongside their all-time action hero, Jackie Chan.
Yet for all their new-found celebrity status, which sees them being stopped for selfies every time they venture onto the streets together in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Hanoi, the brothers remain refreshingly grounded individuals, humbly grateful for the opportunities they have been given.
Just one minute separates the triplets – Lance, Mark and Charles, who were born in that order, 30 years ago in Toronto, to a Cantonese father and a Vietnamese mother of Chinese descent. All three are 1.84 metres tall, toned and muscled from sessions in the gym, softly spoken, scrupulously polite, and with open and friendly demeanours.
The de facto spokesman for the trio is Mark, although the others tend to finish sentences for him, chip in halfway through a delivery, continue a thread, or repeat what he says for emphasis.
They were talent-spotted as teenagers by a modelling agency scout who was having a bite to eat in a McDonald’s. The agent was intrigued to see two lookalike teenagers plonk down next to him, with a facsimile arriving minutes later, laden with burgers and fries.
