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Vietnamese Director Le Binh Giang on Sparking a Generational Conversation With His Locarno Horror Project
Will Thorne Staff WriterVietnamese filmmaker Le Binh Giang once punched Joel Edgerton, and he’s very proud of it.Giang played a gangster who brawled with Edgerton’s main character in 2012’s “Wish You Were Here.” It’s a claim to fame he drops into the conversation while discussing his versatility as an artist.Sat in a caffe at the Locarno Film Festival, Giang demonstrates the pretend right hook he delivered to the Australian actor’s jaw, laughing about the whole experience. A few years after that cameo, Giang released his debut feature “KFC,” a gore-fest about a cannibalistic, necrophiliac doctor.
