HENRY GOLDING
From Crazy Rich Asians to Monsoon
Henry Golding stole hearts as lead Nick Young in the 2018 romantic comedy Crazy Rich Asians, but did you know that was his first leading role in a feature film? Not only that, but it was also only his second acting role ever. His first was as a supporting player in a 2009 Malaysian comedy called Pisau Cukur. After the massive success of Crazy Rich Asians, Golding looked poised to be a new leading man. He was quickly cast opposite Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick in Paul Feig’s A Simple Favor. In the film, he portrayed Sean, the husband of Lively’s duplicitous Emily. Feig and Golding worked together again in the 2019 holiday rom-com Last Christmas. He starred as the charming, almost too good to be true, Tom, alongside Emilia Clarke’s beleaguered Kate. With his looks and charm, is it any surprise that Golding lands a lot of romantic roles?
He took a break from playing amorous men in the 2019 Guy Ritchie crime film The Gentlemen. He plays a Chinese gangster known as Dry Eye, who attempts to buy out Mickey Pearson’s (Matthew McConaughey) marijuana empire. When he is refused, he and his cohorts resort to violence. As you can see, Golding has remained busy since his breakout performance. He now has several projects underway. He will reprise his role as Nick in the Crazy Rich Asians sequel, he will lend his voice to the animated adventure movie Tiger’s Assistant and he will also star in Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins, a spin-off of the G.I. Joe film franchise.
Before any of those projects come out, he has a movie that will hit screens later this year, Monsoon. Golding stars in the film, written and directed by Hong Khaou (Lilting), as Kit, who travels from London to Vietnam, his birth country where he has not been in over thirty years, to scatter his parents’ ashes. As he travels through the country he no longer knows, he reconnects with his estranged family and falls in love with Lewis (Parker Sawyers), an American man whose father fought in the Vietnam War. Monsoon had its world premiere on June 29, 2019, at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Strand Releasing acquired the U.S. distribution rights and it is set for release in the U.S. on November 13, 2020.
