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Tune in as they delve into Cheng's captivating portrayal of Ah Toy, explore the fervent Warrior fandom, and share hop ...more. Dive into an exclusive interview with Olivia Cheng, where...
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4 de dic. de 2020 · Enter Canadian actress and art-ivist Olivia Cheng. She plays a fictionalized version of the notorious real-life Ah Toy, a sex worker and madame known for amassing unprecedented levels of...
- Overview
- Biography
- Significant kills
- Skills and abilities
- Appearances
- Behind the scenes
"You got f*cked because you spoke your business in a room full of whores. This is not China. It's Chinatown. And our blood is cheap here, so you'd better learn to adapt."
—Ah Toy to Ah Sahm
Ah Toy is an accomplished madame who runs a brothel in Chinatown that is frequented by the Hop Wei. Unlike many of her competitors, she is more gentle towards her girls, giving them a choice to work as opposed to forcing them into slavery.
More than just a brothel owner, Ah Toy is an avenging angel and savior, often sneaking out during the darkest of nights to avenge her people who've been wronged and free enslaved sex workers to either come work for her or find sanctuary with Nellie Davenport, who Ah Toy has also forged a bond with.
Early life
Ah Toy was born and raise in China, where she was very close with her grandmother, who'd she often help grow tomatoes in her garden. Before crossing the salt to America, Ah Toy was married to a merchant, who she loved dearly. He sold his silk to an American trading company and brought her on the trip to America to make a new deal. However, he was killed on the boat and the men onboard sought to take Ah Toy, but the captain protected her. And in return, she became his concubine. They threw his body into the sea, and when Ah Toy finally made it to America, the trading company told her that they would not do business without her husband. In China, her husband had properties and taught her that it's best to own land, and so she began purchasing property inside and outside of Chinatown, including her brothel, with the help of her then business partner, Leonard Patterson.
Helping Ah Sahm
Ah Toy greets Young Jun and the newest Hop Wei recruit, Ah Sahm, and welcomes them to a variety of girls for their choosing. Young Jun immediately picks two women, but Ah Sahm isn't interested in sex, revealing that he's looking for someone who would've arrived about two years ago, a woman named Xiaojing, but Ah Toy claims not to know anyone by that name and offers a girl named Zhang Yan to Ah Sahm instead. A small group of Long Zii hatchet men arrive at Ah Toy's after learning that Ah Sahm was asking about Xiaojing. Ah Sahm refuses to leave with them and single-handedly takes out all four men. Afterwards, Ah Toy joins him on the balcony after witnessing his skills first hand. Ah Toy insists that it wasn't her who sold him out and advises Ah Sahm against speaking his business in a room full of whores, reminding him that he's in Chinatown, not China. Moving forward, he's going to need someone he can trust outside of the tong, and Ah Toy believes that could be her. When he asks about Xiaojing again, Ah Toy informs him that someone also came around asking for her about a year ago, and he was dead within a day. When Ah Sahm returns from finding his sister, Ah Toy invites him upstairs, first for a mix of herbs she concocted to help with Ah Sahm's pain, and then sex. Afterwards, whilst Ah Sahm sleeps, Ah Toy sneaks out in the late hours of the night to seek vengeance against the two Irish thugs who killed a couple of Chinese labor men. She beheads the first man and guts the second man. Ah Toy confronts Li Juan, one of her girls, for bringing the Long Zii to her whorehouse after telling them that Ah Sahm was searching for a woman named Xiaojing. As punishment, she has Li Juan's tongue removed. Ah Toy learns from Chao that Ah Sahm was arrested and that Father Jun has no intentions of helping him. Ah Toy is a bit disappointed to hear this, reasoning that Ah Sahm seemed promising, and asks if Chao has any influence in that area. Unfortunately, he doesn't, especially now that they're trying to pin the double murder on him. While war may be good for business, it's not so much for Chinatown, though Chao assures Ah Toy that the Exclusion Act will never get passed, as it's bad for business. Chao works every angle, and some day, Ah Toy fears it'll get him killed. After Ah Sahm is freed from jail and punished for his insubordinance by Father Jun, Ah Toy applies ointment to his wounds and warns him against making reckless decisions such as scrapping with ducks in the pond, even if that wasn't his intent. Ah Toy wonders what he saw while on the other side. Ah Sahm has realized that in San Francisco, they're not people. They're cattle, and that'll never change, he fears. Ah Toy isn't convinced, replying that they can make a change, but only when their people stop being so content with being oppressed. They're a nation of warriors, not slaves. Ah Toy has plans for Ah Sahm, but in the meantime, she wants him to simply take better care of himself, explaining that barrooms and brothels are where revolutions are usually born. Ah Toy's brothel is raided by the police department, and she is informed by Bill that he has orders to shut her down and place her under arrest for running a brothel. However, Ah Toy claims that she runs a boarding house and then pays Bill off.
Recruiting Lai
Ah Toy attends a slave auction and meets a young teenage girl named Lai, who was sold to Zan by her own father to settle a debt. She doesn't talk much and has never been touched. That said, she's double the price. Upon learning from the whore monger that she's from Yumingzui in Shandong Province, Ah Toy purchases the girl, seeming almost sympathetic. Ah Toy then brings Lai home and runs her a bath, assuring the young girl that she'll be safe with her. After reluctantly introducing Ah Sahm to one of her working girls, who used to work as a maid for Long Zii and knows the location of his safe house, Ah Toy notices Gresham and Mr. Holbrook paying a little too much attention to Lai, who, rather than working as a prostitute, Ah Toy has cleaning. Ah Toy welcomes him to enjoy the women, all except Lai, but Holbrook is more interested in her than anyone else, given that she's a virgin, but Lai is not for sale and she suggests that Gresham leave while he still can. However, when she returns from her meeting with her business partner, Leonard Patterson, about buying some land, Ah Toy finds Gresham standing outside a door with Lai inside. She stabs his hand and pins him to the wall before entering the room to find Holbrook on top of Lai. Ah Toy pulls out a knife, cuts his face, sending him running. After she sends Lai to her room, Ah Toy viciously removes her knife from Gresham's palm, taking off two fingers in the process.
•Victor Timmons & Lance McCormick — Ah Toy kills Timmons and McCormick after they discovered that she was in business with Leonard Patterson and attempted to use this information as leverage to charge them above asking price for the Spring Valley property.
•The Teddy Boys — Ah Toy, Lai, and Ah Sahm kill several members of this local gang after discovering that they wore cut‐off queues on their jackets and that a Chinese scalp was part of initiation.
Ah Toy is an avenging angle adept at wielding the dao — a single-edged Chinese swords that she uses to slice and slaughter her victims with ease, such as corrupt businessmen, Chinese slavers, or even drunken Irishmen. In addition to her sword-wielding capabilities, Ah Toy is a capable fighter, managing to defend herself in hand-to-hand combat again...
Season 1
•The Itchy Onion •There's No China in the Bible •John Chinaman •The White Mountain •The Blood and the Sh*t (credit only) •Chewed Up, Spit Out, and Stepped On •The Tiger and the Fox •They Don't Pay Us Enough to Think •Chinese Boxing •If You're Going to Bow, Bow Low
Season 2
•Learn to Endure, or Hire a Bodyguard •The Chinese Connection •Not How We Do Business •If You Don't See Blood, You Didn't Come to Play •Not for a Drink, a F*ck, or a G**damn Prayer •To a Man with a Hammer, Everything Looks Like a Nail (credit only) •If You Wait by the River Long Enough •All Enemies, Foreign and Domestic •Enter the Dragon •Man on the Wall
Season 3
•Exactly the Wrong Time to Get Proud •Anything Short of a Blow to the Head •No Time for F*cking Chemistry
•Ah Toy is portrayed by Olivia Cheng.
•The character, Ah Toy, is based on the first Chinese prostitute of the same name who arrived in San Francisco from Hong Kong in 1849, during the California Gold Rush.
En la serie, Cheng interpreta a Ah Toy, una madame y propietaria de un negocio que se ha ganado el respeto de las facciones rivales y utiliza su influencia dentro de Chinatown para perseguir...
Some of her roles include concubine Mei Lin in Marco Polo, sinister Master Gao in Deadly Class, Ah Toy (a madam in San Francisco's Chinatown) in the 1870s set martial arts crime drama series Warrior, Dr. Sylvia Wen (Boulder Free Zone's main doctor) in the 2021 adaptation of Stephen King's The Stand and warrior Charlotte in the ...
YearFilm/tv SeriesRole2021–2022Charlotte2020Dr. Sylvia Wen2019–present2019Master Gao26 de feb. de 2024 · 2. 162 views 1 day ago. Dive into an exclusive interview with Olivia Cheng, where she joins host Elias on Pop Culture Unplugged to discuss the hit series "Warrior," now streaming on Netflix!...
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23 de sept. de 2020 · In this interview, Cheng maps out Ah Toy’s power and how she uses her intelligence of how the world sees her to her advantage, putting on a mask for the public, and using the limited tools that society has given her – namely, her beauty.
