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Gotta make it back for Ma’s cooking

#cinema #crimedrama #actor #aapi #asiantalent #antonzhou

Always ready to run it 🎯

You guys know my brand by now and it’s about time I spell it out with some fresh headshots. Had an incredible session with @jacksondavisphoto thank you so much brother! I love how these turned out and hope y’all do too! I appreciate everyone who continues to stick around in my cinematic universe.

Let’s get to work.

#cinema #actor #aapi #losangeles

Always ready to run it 🎯

You guys know my brand by now and it’s about time I spell it out with some fresh headshots. Had an incredible session with @jacksondavisphoto thank you so much brother! I love how these turned out and hope y’all do too! I appreciate everyone who continues to stick around in my cinematic universe.

Let’s get to work.

#cinema #actor #aapi #losangeles

Always ready to run it 🎯

You guys know my brand by now and it’s about time I spell it out with some fresh headshots. Had an incredible session with @jacksondavisphoto thank you so much brother! I love how these turned out and hope y’all do too! I appreciate everyone who continues to stick around in my cinematic universe.

Let’s get to work.

#cinema #actor #aapi #losangeles

Always ready to run it 🎯

You guys know my brand by now and it’s about time I spell it out with some fresh headshots. Had an incredible session with @jacksondavisphoto thank you so much brother! I love how these turned out and hope y’all do too! I appreciate everyone who continues to stick around in my cinematic universe.

Let’s get to work.

#cinema #actor #aapi #losangeles

Always ready to run it 🎯

You guys know my brand by now and it’s about time I spell it out with some fresh headshots. Had an incredible session with @jacksondavisphoto thank you so much brother! I love how these turned out and hope y’all do too! I appreciate everyone who continues to stick around in my cinematic universe.

Let’s get to work.

#cinema #actor #aapi #losangeles

Always ready to run it 🎯

You guys know my brand by now and it’s about time I spell it out with some fresh headshots. Had an incredible session with @jacksondavisphoto thank you so much brother! I love how these turned out and hope y’all do too! I appreciate everyone who continues to stick around in my cinematic universe.

Let’s get to work.

#cinema #actor #aapi #losangeles

Always ready to run it 🎯

You guys know my brand by now and it’s about time I spell it out with some fresh headshots. Had an incredible session with @jacksondavisphoto thank you so much brother! I love how these turned out and hope y’all do too! I appreciate everyone who continues to stick around in my cinematic universe.

Let’s get to work.

#cinema #actor #aapi #losangeles

Always ready to run it 🎯

You guys know my brand by now and it’s about time I spell it out with some fresh headshots. Had an incredible session with @jacksondavisphoto thank you so much brother! I love how these turned out and hope y’all do too! I appreciate everyone who continues to stick around in my cinematic universe.

Let’s get to work.

#cinema #actor #aapi #losangeles

Always ready to run it 🎯

You guys know my brand by now and it’s about time I spell it out with some fresh headshots. Had an incredible session with @jacksondavisphoto thank you so much brother! I love how these turned out and hope y’all do too! I appreciate everyone who continues to stick around in my cinematic universe.

Let’s get to work.

#cinema #actor #aapi #losangeles

Always ready to run it 🎯

You guys know my brand by now and it’s about time I spell it out with some fresh headshots. Had an incredible session with @jacksondavisphoto thank you so much brother! I love how these turned out and hope y’all do too! I appreciate everyone who continues to stick around in my cinematic universe.

Let’s get to work.

#cinema #actor #aapi #losangeles

I know who I am. That’s enough.

But you don’t wanna go down that road kid.

#cinema #antonzhou #whatdifferencedoesitmake

The price was never yours to pay.

#cinema #antonzhou #whatwillyouhaveafter500years

You ever just get an audition peak week and casting goes “wow your face looks slimmer!”

Me too buddy.

The offseason used to be… pretty lax as you can see. But it’s through those troughs you learn to craft a system that works for you.

Keep raising the standard. Stay ready so you don’t have to get ready.

#actor #cinema #antonzhou

Always too much but never enough. That’s what they all say.

#cinema #antonzhou

Moments of chiaroscuro 🎞️

#art #antonzhou #portrait #cinema

Moments of chiaroscuro 🎞️

#art #antonzhou #portrait #cinema

Moments of chiaroscuro 🎞️

#art #antonzhou #portrait #cinema

Moments of chiaroscuro 🎞️

#art #antonzhou #portrait #cinema

Moments of chiaroscuro 🎞️

#art #antonzhou #portrait #cinema

Moments of chiaroscuro 🎞️

#art #antonzhou #portrait #cinema

Moments of chiaroscuro 🎞️

#art #antonzhou #portrait #cinema

Moments of chiaroscuro 🎞️

#art #antonzhou #portrait #cinema

Moments of chiaroscuro 🎞️

#art #antonzhou #portrait #cinema

Moments of chiaroscuro 🎞️

#art #antonzhou #portrait #cinema

Moments of chiaroscuro 🎞️

#art #antonzhou #portrait #cinema

For da culture, film & tv edition.

Standing on the shoulders of giants among this next wave of storytellers. So many more influential folks we can include. Just some of my favorites.

Somewhere in another universe these characters have all met :)

#cinema #actor #antonzhou #aapi #proudasian

Some days I wake up and wonder why I pursue the very things that are bound to drain my pockets…

But most days I remember this is what makes me feel most fulfilled.

It’s been a confusing few phases of life that somehow transpired into this unwavering belief that I could make it in the “entertainment” industry. For years I would run around town on the weekends with my tripod and film like a madman into the night, only to wake up 3 hours later for my morning commute to work. I tried to keep up with my art and stay competitive in men’s physique. Sleep deprived but always hungry to create something, emerging from the cohort of internet filmmakers who are some of the most inspiring storytellers I’ve seen. No CDs to validate you, no waiting on callbacks, no bureaucracy. Just making something with your own two hands.

I try my best at this interesting inflection point in my life now as an actor. And that’s sometimes all you can do. Shoutout to all of you who continue to ride with me on this journey, through the ups and downs… the road is yet to be paved.

Also please enjoy all these BTS clips. I realize you guys always see the polished product, but boy oh boy the struggle that goes into it…wouldn’t want it any other way tho.

#cinema #antonzhou

Sign me up I guess.

#actor #cinema #antonzhou

Most days I don’t know if I’m actually trying to become better or if I just like the idea of trying. I think often about working towards “the man I’m supposed to be” but it’s always outweighed by the inexplicable number of times I’ve quit on versions of myself. I’m no loser but I’ve lost more than I could fathom from my ambivalence towards what I sought in life. Or maybe I deceived myself into believing I deserved it. Playing victim was easy. I try to contest what’s fair but who am I to decide? Where did this entitlement emerge from? I’ve abandoned more than the world ever took from me and yet I expect pity. The stifling sadness of it all culminates into this indifference I’ve carried far too well, imbued with memories of those I’ve let down. The self-deprecation drowning me just precipitates like there’s no ground beneath what I stand for, if anything at all. Hey man it’s not that deep… that’s what I tell myself. Yet I can’t seem to acknowledge my inner voice when it calls me out for my shortcomings, and instead I divert my attention to rambling gibberish into the internet void like I am now. When I bypass the mental gymnastics that bog me down I descend into this narrow realm, and I see across from me a man imprisoned by his own thoughts and rules. He’s not guilty. Hardheaded, calloused but subordinate to even the smallest flashbacks of grief. Defending his feelings of inadequacy but never willing to share them. Romanticizing his fabricated struggles but unable to channel the weight behind his identity knowing damn well he has so much to offer to this world. The truth is he still has people who believe in him, even when he feels he doesn’t deserve a shot. There’s still time to reclaim that old spirit - if not for them then for himself.

#cinema #antonzhou

Last year, my dad told me he loved me for the first time.
I didn’t know how to respond.
It felt unfamiliar, somewhere between hope and doubt.

Growing up, love was never loud.
It lived in patience.
In restraint.
In everything that went unsaid.

With time, I learned love isn’t always fluent.
Sometimes it’s forgiveness.
Sometimes it’s distance.

Love isn’t meant to be withheld.
It’s meant to be carried forward.

I love you, Dad.

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Director: @levioceann
Featuring: @zhoant
Cam Op: @jahnny.lee
Sound: @tylerw.smith