Taylor Takahashi (born September 7, 1992) is an American actor, chef, former basketball player, and personal assistant to Eddie Huang.
He returned to his roots and joined a recreation league where he discovered that Eddie Huang was one of his teammates.
Huang showed Takahashi the script for a movie he was hoping to direct, Boogie, and continued to assist him on the project by training the actor chosen for the lead role.
"I show up to the office about three and a half weeks into pre-production, and Eddie's standing at the front door... And he's like, 'What’s up?
Takahashi was soon informed by Huang that the actor chosen was unable to take the role and had decided to cast him instead.