Actor Chase Tang, who will be appearing in the Netflix show Jupiter’s Legacy as a supervillain, says he transitioned from a corporate sales person into acting by strategically planning the agents he connected with and using his own framework to ace auditions.
“I wanted to completely go into the audition looking like someone they would never forget,” said Taiwanese Canadian actor Chase Tang, about his Netflix audition for Jupiter’s Legacy.
Chase’s family immigrated from Taiwan to Canada in 1992 and settled in Nova Scotia, where he described hockey “as a way of life.” Very quickly, he learned how to skate and was enrolled into recreational ice hockey, where he ended up becoming a young prodigy. He advanced to playing in AAA hockey in Nova Scotia, with peers like two time Olympic gold medalist and captain of the Pittsburgh Penguins Sidney Crosby. Like many Nova Scotia boys with dreams of an NHL career, hockey was Chase’s life–that is until he was injured. A career ending injury brought on depression and social anxiety for Chase, who felt like he had lost his entire identity because he could no longer fall back onto hockey.
Much later in life, with no formal training and no theatre background, Chase decided to dive into an acting career after a successful corporate career. “People thought I was crazy because I came in so late,” he recalled. “I was like no training, no nothing and a few years away from my 30s.”
Chase and I also talked about:
🏒 How playing AAA hockey was the best + worst time in his childhood
🦹🏻♂️ What strategies he used to go from a corporate sales person to becoming a Netflix supervillain (from getting a big time agent to auditioning tips)
🍦 His obsession with ice cream and chips (in unbelievably gigantic quantities!)