Christina Milian, who can be seen in Warner Brothers' "Love Don't Cost a Thing," plays Val's love interest, another bold move in casting, since black women and Asian men are rarely seen together on the big screen.
But storytelling is the only item on Kahn's list of things to do. And while "Torque" might present a different racial paradigm, the director isn't trying to be political.
"If the process of telling stories that naturally comes from within me makes me change Asian America and the perception of it, then that's what's gonna happen. But it's not something that I'm politically activated by. On this movie, I definitely put in a character that I think is very different from what anyone's ever perceived Asian America as [being], but that was not my agenda. If it's a byproduct of it, I think it's the way to go. ... This filmmaking business is so hard, it's very hard to throw in agendas on top of the job at hand." |
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Actually, just getting a movie made at all is difficult, says Kahn, who has been attached to films like "Transformers" and the fourth installment of "The Crow," neither of which got made.
"That's just the way that Hollywood works. You have so many things in development, but the actual greenlight comes in once every blue moon," says Kahn. "There's literally hundreds of thousands of things in development, and if you've made one of those 300 films that actually got made in that year, you hit a lottery."
Kahn's lottery consisted of a $50-million budget to create eye-candy with motorcycles — a job that came with a lot of stress.
"Shooting bikes is not fun," says Kahn. "When you watch the film, it's gonna be just this nonstop blast to the face. But when you're making the movie, every time you see a shot on the film where there's a camera mounted to a bike's wheel, that took hours to do. |
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