shuang hu | 35
Shuang Hu joins Takaya Honda for a huge conversation about going from The Family Law to building a global audience of millions, generating more than 8 BILLION YouTube views, and taking control of her own career.
Shuang talks acting, TikTok, going viral, moving to LA, creating Five Blind Dates, building a team around her content and why having millions of followers still doesn’t guarantee a hit.
What we get into
· Growing up Chinese-Australian in Townsville
· Meeting Takaya on The Family Law
· Going from painfully shy to wanting to perform
· Leaving a career in finance for acting
· Moving to LA and starting again
· Learning comedy, writing and producing
· Starting TikTok just before the pandemic
· Turning social media into a career and business
· Building a team around her content
· Reaching 8 million YouTube subscribers
· More than 8 BILLION YouTube views
· Creating and starring in Five Blind Dates
· The four-year journey getting the movie made
· Screen Australia-backed series Austra Asian
· What actually makes a video go viral
· Meeting her fans for the first time at VidCon
· Acting versus controlling her own creative career
· Learning to be proud of what she has built
just tak is an interview platform dedicated to unmasking the reality of the creative industry.
Hosted by Australian actor and presenter Takaya Honda, the show strips away the polished PR narratives to ask the most important question in performance: Why?
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