TALKING TO LUCKY STAR "STARS" - TERRY CHEN and OLIVIA CHENG

Terry Chen and Olivia Cheng team up as a married couple at odds in the drama, Lucky Star - which is launching across the country in theatres in celebration of Asian Heritage Month and on VOD across North America. 

Deep in debt, with a house and a university-bound kid, plus a marriage on the rocks, reformed gambler Lucky (Terry Chen) sees his luck run out after getting scammed in a tax-fraud scheme. Ashamed and desperate to keep it from his family, he returns to underground backroom gambling dens, playing for big payouts to relieve the debt and win back his family’s favour.

Meanwhile, each family member, unaware of Lucky’s troubles but feeling the money crunch, too, resorts to unsavoury means to dig out of their hole.

A Calgary-BC co-production, LUCKY STAR brings together a production team and a cast of Canadian heavy-weights with a cast of actors including Terry Chen (House of Cards, Almost Famous), and Olivia Cheng (Marco Polo), Conni Miu (Priscilla) and Andrew Phung (Run the Burbs) who are all originally from Alberta. 

LUCKY STAR has had a successful festival run with screenings in the US at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival and sold out screenings at home in Canada at the Vancouver International Film Festival, Reel Asian Film Festival in Toronto and at the Calgary International Film Festival where it took home the Audience Choice Award.

In Canada, the film will screen in Toronto (Lightbox - May 15th), Vancouver (The Rio - May 28th), Calgary (May 2nd), Edmonton, Winnipeg and Saskatoon with more locations to be announced.

I spoke with stars Terry Chen and Olivia Cheng about working on the film and the bitter Alberta cold.