Empire Spotlight: The Ben Wang Interview

Empire Spotlight: The Ben Wang Interview

It all started with cat sick. Having moved with his family from Shanghai to Minnesota when he was six, Ben Wang learned English by consuming nine hours of television a day. Most helpful of all? Infomercials. “There would always be the same ones,” he says now, “with a guy carefully explaining what he was doing. Like, ‘Watch how the chamois absorbs your cat’s puke,’ doing the motion. And I’m like, ‘Ah, absorb. Yes, absorption.’” Fluency followed, …