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Yahoo
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
17 Wild "Then Vs. Now" Photos Of Former Child Stars That Will Make You Feel Very, Very Old
Brenda Song in The Suite Life of Zack of Cody, age 17: Here's Brenda Song now, age 37: Ke Huy Quan in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, age 12: Here's Ke Huy Quan now, age 53: Lana Condor in X-Men: Apocalypse, age 18: Here's Lana Condor now, age 28: Hailee Steinfeld in True Grit, age 13: Here's Hailee Steinfeld now, age 28: Vanessa Hudgens in Thunderbirds, age 15: Here's Vanessa Hudgens now, age 36: Auli'i Cravalho (voice of Moana) when Moana was released, age 16: Here's Auliʻi Cravalho now, age 24: Related: People Are Talking About The Most Shocking Celebrity Deaths That Don't Get Enough Attention Maitreyi Ramakrishnan in Never Have I Ever, age 18: Here's Maitreyi Ramakrishnan now, age 23: Hudson Yang in Fresh Off the Boat, age 11: Here's Hudson Yang now, age 21: Devon Aoki in 2 Fast 2 Furious, age 20: Here's Devon Aoki in 2023, age 40: Related: 21 Times Celebrities Revealed Wildly Juicy, Shady, Or Even Disturbing Things In Interviews Ian Chen in Fresh Off the Boat, age 8: Here's Ian Chen now, age 18: Arden Cho in Teen Wolf, age 19: Here's Arden Cho now, age 39: Sydney Park in That's So Raven, age 8: Here's Sydney Park now, age 27: Malese Jow in Unfabulous, age 14: Here's Malese Jow now, age 34: Forrest Wheeler in Fresh Off the Boat, age 8: Here's Forrest Wheeler in 2023, age 19: Anna Cathcart in To All the Boys, age 14: Here's Anna Cathcart now, age 21: Avan Jogia in Victorious, age 17: Here's Avan Jogia now, age 33: finally, here's Olivia Rodrigo in Bizaardvark, age 13: Here's Olivia Rodrigo now, age 22: Did any of these transformations surprise you? Let us know in the comments below! Check out more AAPI-centered content by exploring how BuzzFeed celebrates Asian Pacific American Heritage Month! Of course, the content doesn't end after May. Follow BuzzFeed's A*Pop on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube to keep up with our latest AAPI content year-round. Also in Celebrity: 14 Celebrities Who Have So Many Kids, They're Basically Running Their Own Daycare, And 11 Who Said "Hmm, Hard Pass" Also in Celebrity: Keke Palmer's "Sickening" Dress Has The Internet In Shambles Also in Celebrity: 24 Strange, Gross, And Totally Surprising Facts About Red Carpet Outfits
Buzz Feed
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
17 Famous AAPI Child Actors Then Vs. Now Photos
Here's Brenda Song in The Suite Life of Zack of Cody, age 17: Here's Brenda Song now, age 37: Here's Ke Huy Quan in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, age 12: Here's Ke Huy Quan now, age 53: Here's Lana Condor in X-Men: Apocalypse, age 18: Here's Lana Condor now, age 28: Here's Hailee Steinfeld in True Grit, age 13: Here's Hailee Steinfeld now, age 28: Here's Vanessa Hudgens in Thunderbirds, age 15: Here's Vanessa Hudgens now, age 36: Here's Auli'i Cravalho (voice of Moana) when Moana was released, age 16: Here's Auliʻi Cravalho now, age 24: Here's Maitreyi Ramakrishnan in Never Have I Ever, age 18: Here's Maitreyi Ramakrishnan now, age 23: Here's Hudson Yang in Fresh Off the Boat, age 11: Here's Hudson Yang now, age 21: Here's Devon Aoki in 2 Fast 2 Furious, age 20: Here's Devon Aoki in 2023, age 40: Here's Ian Chen in Fresh Off the Boat, age 8: Here's Ian Chen now, age 18: Here's Arden Cho in Teen Wolf, age 19: Here's Arden Cho now, age 39: Here's Sydney Park in That's So Raven, age 8: Here's Sydney Park now, age 27: Here's Malese Jow in Unfabulous, age 14: Here's Malese Jow now, age 34: Here's Forrest Wheeler in Fresh Off the Boat, age 8: Here's Forrest Wheeler in 2023, age 19: Here's Anna Cathcart in To All the Boys, age 14: Here's Anna Cathcart now, age 21: Here's Avan Jogia in Victorious, age 17: Here's Avan Jogia now, age 33: And finally, here's Olivia Rodrigo in Bizaardvark, age 13: Here's Olivia Rodrigo now, age 22: Did any of these transformations surprise you? Let us know in the comments below! Check out more AAPI-centered content by exploring how BuzzFeed celebrates Asian Pacific American Heritage Month! Of course, the content doesn't end after May. Follow BuzzFeed's A*Pop on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube to keep up with our latest AAPI content year-round.
Time Out
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Time Out
Eddie Huang is doing a Chinese-meets-Greek restaurant pop-up at NYC's The Flower Shop
Eddie Huang has come a long way from hawking Chairman Bao buns at the beloved Baohaus. Since his days cheffing in the Lower East Side, Huang's long resume lists hosting duties on the Cooking Channel, MTV and Vice, a documentarian, a producer and a best-selling author of two books, one of which spawned the ABC series, 'Fresh Off the Boat.' But it seems as thought the restaurant world truly never left him, as the multi-hyphenated talent is returning to lower Manhattan for a summer-long residency. Starting June 11, Huang will be taking over the kitchen of The Flower Shop, only a ten-minute walk from his former haunt. Named Gazebo, the residency was inspired by Huang's experimentations cooking traditional Chinese dishes in olive oil sourced from his wife's family's field in Greece. On his Substack, Canal Street Dreams, Huang spoke about how this simple swap created an entirely new profile. 'At home, I use the olive oil from Natashia's family field in Greece to reimagine Chinese food that's usually made with high heat oils,' said Huang. 'By simply changing the way I apply heat due to the character of olive oil, it's completely changed my cooking and it comes out tasting like Chinese food from a blue zone.' Huang's personal and worldwide culinary influences come through with small plates of cherrystone clams with pancetta noodles to a scallop ceviche dish with Marcona almonds that reflects his time with the seafood legend of Lima, chef Javier Wong. Large plates explore the cuisines even further as his red cooked pork stars Iberian pancetta and the chopped chili fluke is made with his wife's blend of oil, named, 'Natashia's sizzling oil.' Dessert finishes with a griddled Kossar's chocolate babka with ice cream. The pop-up will run on select dates from June until September. The first round will start this month on June 11 to June 13, followed by July 9 to July 11, August 6 to August 8 and September 10 to September 12. Dinner is $80 per person, which includes your choice of small plate, a large plate and dessert. Reserve your table here.
San Francisco Chronicle
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- San Francisco Chronicle
Ali Wong to direct new Netflix special
Ali Wong is lending her comedic talents to Netflix once again, but she's returning to a behind-the-camera role. The Pacific Heights native will direct Taiwanese American comedian Sheng Wang's next stand-up special on the streaming platform, according to Variety, which first reported the news. Set for release in 2026, the hour-long program is scheduled to be filmed at the Warner Theater in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 8. Both Wong and Wang will executive produce alongside John Irwin, whose credits include 'Late Night with Conan O'Brien' and 'MADtv.' Wang, who grew up in Texas, is best known for his work as a writer on the ABC sitcom ' Fresh Off the Boat,' though he got his start practicing his material in San Francisco and New York City in the early 2000s. His 2022 Netflix special, 'Sweet & Juicy,' was also directed by Wong. The award-winning comic and actress has starred in a number of Netflix programs herself, and most recently earned a Golden Globe for her stand-up special ' Single Lady,' released last October. While accepting the award at the ceremony in January, she shouted out San Francisco's Punch Line Comedy Club for helping her get started in the industry. Wong returned to Punch Line in March for a string of 'Ali Wong: Work in Progress' shows, and brought along fellow comedian Bill Hader, who she has been dating since 2023. The two were spotted at the newly reopened Vietnamese restaurant Turtle Tower in the Financial District. A loyal fan of the establishment, she previously mentioned that the restaurant's chicken pho was one of her top four noodle soups of all time during an appearance on the talk show 'Hot Ones.' Though she now resides in Los Angeles, Wong frequently travels back up the coast to perform in the Bay Area, and even filmed part of her 2019 rom-com, ' Always Be My Maybe,' starring opposite 'Fresh Off the Boat' star Randall Park, in San Francisco.
Yahoo
08-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
As Watson's Season 1 Finale Promo Reveals Moriarty Meeting John, Are We About To See Why Randall Park Fit The Showrunner's 'Fantasy Casting' For The Villain?
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The days are counting down until the beginning of the end for Watson in CBS' spring 2025 TV schedule, with the first half of the two-part finale airing on May 4 and streaming afterwards via a Paramount+ subscription. It wouldn't truly feel like a Watson event if the leading man's nemesis didn't return, with the fun twist that John doesn't actually know with certainty that Moriarty is even alive and active to be his enemy. Well, the promo confirms not only that Randall Park will be back for the finale, but he'll share at least one scene with Morris Chestnut. The footage reminded me of what showrunner Craig Sweeny told me earleir this year about casting the Fresh Off the Boat sitcom star as the iconic villain out of Sherlock Holmes lore. First things first! The preview for Part 1 of the finale may be short, but it packs in plenty of reasons to worry about what the episode will bring. One of the Croft twins appears to be in bad shape, and Moriarty... well, it looks like he's finally making a big move that can't be undone. Take a look: Moriarty has mostly lurked in the shadows on Watson, reaching out to Shinwell and then Ingrid to blackmail them and get an edge on Watson. Apparently, if he can't torment Sherlock Holmes, John Watson is the next best thing for him! Based on the preview, it appears that Moriarty will finally be bold enough to reach out to the good doctor himself, which really doesn't bode well. The look on his face is pretty chilling! In fact, the expression on his face in the promo as he tells Watson that he's a "big fan" is what reminded me of my conversation with showrunner Craig Sweeny (who was a writer and executive producer for Elementary prior to Watson's take on the Arthur Conan Doyle characters) and star Morris Chestnut at SCAD TVfest in Atlanta earlier this year. At the time, only the series premiere had aired to reveal that Watson's take on the iconic literary villain was an unassuming man in a polo shirt played by an actor with great comedic timing, so I had to ask: what went in to casting the WandaVision alum as THE James Moriarty? After the star and EP reacted to the strong series premiere ratings, Sweeny shared: When you're writing a pilot, you're sort of fantasy casting as you're writing, because you haven't cast actors yet. Moriarty was one that was wide open in my head, but I did have a pre-existing relationship with Randall, and it sort of jumped into my head that that would be the most surprising casting that you could possibly do. He's a nice [man]. His work reflects who he is as a person, which is this genuinely kind, thoughtful guy. How do you possibly turn that on its head and make that menacing and evil? And that just seemed like a challenge that was really exciting for me. Watson made the most of the veneer of kindness for a fair amount of Moriarty's screentime so far, to the point that he doesn't seem all that despicable even when detailing nefarious plans. I think that may be about to change in at least the first part of the two-episode season finale, which hopefully means big things for Season 2 after the early renewal. Sweeny went on: I have written Moriarty before on Elementary with Natalie Dormer. This was a way to just do it in an entirely different way. Then you think about, 'Okay, how does he present in the world?' The polo shirt was my version of [how] he just wants to blend in. He was referred to in the script as Pittsburgh Dad. That's what he wants you to see when you look at him, just a guy on the incline on his way to work. It's how he blends into the world. Watson may have introduced Moriarty in his Pittsburgh Dad persona, but it certainly appears that it would take more than a polo shirt to hide the villain's true nature in the finale! Then again, no promo is going to spoil the biggest twists of an episode, so perhaps we shouldn't read too much into the ominous but brief shots of Randall Park in the preview. Other than Moriarty's identity seemingly being figured out by Ingrid and Moriarty meeting Watson, we can't say much about what kind of havoc he'll be wreaking in the finale episode based on just the few seconds of footage so far. The first half of the two-part Watson Season 1 finale airs on Sunday, May 4 at 9 p.m. ET on CBS, followed by the second half the next week on May 11. You can also revisit any earlier episodes of the doctor/detective drama streaming on Paramount+ now.
