Remember Mengke Bateer? He was the first Chinese player to play in the NBA and played for the Denver Nuggets, San Antonio Spurs, and the Toronto Raptors.
Well, he now is kicking ass and taking names in the Chinese Film Industry as an actor.
We get more from Sham Sports:
In addition to continuing his basketball career, Bateer has also begun a move towards whatever the Hong Kong equivalent of Hollywood is called. He first appeared in a film called "The Blue Xanadu" back in 2005, and the above monk photo comes from a film called "Bodyguards And Assassins."So, most of you out there in the blogosphere are asking for visual proof of Mengke kicking ass. Well, below is a clip from Bodyguard & Assasins where he kills some dudes with coconuts.
Bodyguards & Assasins is reputedly one of the most eagerly anticipated and expensive films to come out of Hong Kong cinema in a generation, with a hype fuelled in no small part by repeated delays in its release. The trailer certainly makes it look as slick as a baby's arse, and better still, Bateer's part is no small cameo. In the film, he plays an outcast monk (obviously), going by the slightly awesome of Wang Fuming, who moonlights as a tofu vendor. There are not enough films these days written about 6'11 monk salesmen, but Bateer pulls the part off with remarkable aplomb, as you can see in this clip where he kills dudes with coconuts and proves to be nigh-on impossible to kill.
Bateer is also set to appear in a upcoming film called Arrival of the Fortune of God but nothing is currently know outside of this picture.
It gives Yao Ming and Yi Jianlian some hope that if this basketball thing ends prematurely, they'll just end up in Asian Hollywood.
(Courtesy of Sham Sports)