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.
The film got him expelled from film school, but also propelled him to cult status in Vietnam. Giang (pictured below) is currently developing his.
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