00:00And I wouldn't mind making out with Carl Urban, so sure.
00:03There's a spinoff called Fifty Shades of Combat.
00:07Yeah, I'm definitely down for that. I think it'd be great.
00:09I don't know if I was allowed to say that. I'm going to get canceled.
00:12Tell me you're not some crazy fans.
00:14How are you doing that?
00:16Are you coming or what?
00:23It was actually quite a cool story in that I think Ed specifically asked for that not to come into
00:28play in this season.
00:30I don't think he wanted Sonya's whole journey just to be about finding a man, which is great.
00:36I am sure if we continue to make them that that will be something that we get to explore.
00:42Yeah, that is an element of the evolution of Johnny Cage and Sonya's story that I very much look forward
00:49to play.
00:50I think that that'll be a fun extra dynamic to add to the ingredients
00:55and, you know, evolve these characters beyond just a sort of like a work relationship or a fighting tournament, you
01:03know, relationship.
01:05Yeah, I'm definitely down for that. I think it'd be great.
01:07I was wondering if you saw any particularly epic or nauseating moments of practical effects.
01:15A lot of it was quite practical in some ways, so it was actually really cool.
01:21Like seeing the, I guess, like the Johnny Baraka fight was to me the most like certain aspects of that.
01:28Him going through the...
01:32Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yes.
01:34Oh my gosh, yeah. There's a stunt in there that's insane.
01:38Yeah, and watching it in real time was wild.
01:41I find you annoying.
01:43Johnny would definitely die.
01:49You looked incredible as Shao Kahn.
01:53What was that like for you?
01:56Horrible.
01:59No, the thing is, what a lot of people wouldn't have understood through watching the film was the prosthetics
02:07and the level of prosthetics underneath the helmet was insane.
02:11Like three and a half, four hours just to get the face and the body on.
02:15And then maybe an hour in wardrobe.
02:19And then obviously going to film throughout the day.
02:22Just the general problems that occur being in Australia in a film set with all the lights and the heat
02:28and so on.
02:29Then you're wearing prosthetics.
02:30Then obviously the amount of fight sequences that Shao has in this film.
02:34Yeah.
02:35And intense fight sequences, you know.
02:38That created so many problems and so much headache, to be honest.
02:44But never throughout the whole sequences and the whole filming of it
02:50did I ever feel that that was enough.
02:53I was done.
02:53I didn't want to carry on.
02:54It was so exciting, so well rehearsed, such a good, solid story
02:59and such an incredible character to play that even on those days where you are exhausted, dehydrated
03:05and physically beaten, I still turned up with a smile on my face and excited to do it.
03:12So it was tough.
03:14It was hard, but extremely rewarding now we get to see the final product.
03:17So Johnny Cage's fake movie really cracked me up.
03:20That sequence was so delightful.
03:23Yeah, well that was a fun challenge because like, you know, I've seen it done and I've seen it done
03:28well.
03:29I thought DiCaprio did a great job in Once Upon a Time and Hollywood, you know.
03:33And just that subtle shift between the sort of reality within the movie and the movie within the movie.
03:39So for me, I was really thinking about, okay, well, what's Johnny Cage's style of acting?
03:44And I thought that he was like a martial arts actor that's trying to break out of martial arts movies
03:49into the mainstream.
03:50So he's trying to rip off like Harrison Ford and Clint Eastwood.
03:53So some of the like the facial things you see him do in that movie, like he does this point
03:58where he sort of like goes.
04:00And that is totally ripped off from Harrison Ford in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
04:05But that's the kind of the act like Harrison Ford makes it looks cool, Johnny Cage.
04:09It just looks ridiculous.
04:11But yeah, just a lot of fun.
04:13A lot of fun.
04:13I was also curious to the process of deciding kind of like when and how often to include like the
04:21moves from the games.
04:22I think we realized that we didn't need to do a lot of them.
04:29I don't know how many there are.
04:31I haven't counted them.
04:32But what we were talking about mostly was like character and how in these fights, in these pieces of action,
04:39how do the characters grow?
04:41And how do they get challenged?
04:43And how do they evolve through this?
04:45And so it sort of becomes this sort of layering process of just and then thinking, OK, we've done that
04:53here.
04:54So let's wait a beat and then we'll do this one over here.
04:56So it's just really just a sort of a balancing process.
05:07Shag, marry, kill, Shao Kahn, Joe Goldberg or Lucifer from Sabrina.
05:17Oh, my God.
05:17Shag, marry, kill.
05:21OK.
05:23Kill.
05:25Kill Lucifer.
05:28Great.
05:29Because, duh, kill the Dark Lord.
05:34Shag, Joe Goldberg and marry Shao Kahn because he's got the power.
05:40Actually, I do that the other way around.
05:43I do that the other way around.
05:44I'd go, yeah, I don't know if there's anybody that I want to marry.
05:47Sure.
05:48Yeah, there are really.
05:50That's what's catching me up.
05:52But I'm like.
05:52That's funny.
05:53That's fair.
05:54I think that's a solid assessment.
05:56Because I'm like, even marrying Joe Goldberg is like dangerous territory.
06:01The Kung Lao fatality that was so gnarly.
06:04It was so wild.
06:06What were your like memories of bringing that super emotional and like bloody and disgusting
06:11thing to life in this?
06:13I think we had so many discussions around that because, I mean, if you look at that fatality,
06:19there's a lot in it, especially how it recalls to Kung Lao's fatality in the first movie.
06:24Do you know what I mean?
06:25And that was the fatality that every single person remembered.
06:28So in the second movie, I think the whole point was we had so much feedback from the first movie
06:33and we wanted to give the audience what they wanted.
06:36Also, we wanted to add another level of surprise.
06:39You can't just hand feed the audience.
06:41And I think that's how it came about.
06:43It's like, it's the perfect twist.
06:44And it's heartbreaking.
06:45It feels like.
06:46Yeah.
06:47The first movie, for me, it feels like a bromance between Liu Kang and Kung Lao,
06:53how they were together anyway.
06:54And the second movie, it's like a heartbreaking.
06:57It's a breakup.
06:58It's a breakup story.
06:59It's a breakup story.
07:00Yeah, I love it.
07:02I thought that was super effective, for sure.
07:04Yeah.
07:04So it's really a spinoff for you guys, too.
07:06Yeah, you can have your own romance.
07:08The what?
07:09Brokeback combat.
07:12We're cooking with gas over here.
07:15Solid idea.
07:15All the spinoffs.
07:16He's like, I won't be able to show any of this interview.
07:19Come back.
07:20In what ways did your physicality change playing this different version of him?
07:27Well, I train a lot, cardio.
07:29I train so much.
07:30And then, for sure, this one, I think, more into technical rather than physical.
07:36Because now, because he has a shadow helping him fighting.
07:40And then, for me, in terms of, I don't want the audience to see him as two.
07:45So my discussion with the director and then Kyle, the action director,
07:48and all our friends, other choreographers,
07:50that we need to create a choreography that people need to see this is not a two person.
07:56This is like one person.
07:58And then he's using his alter ego as a weapon.
08:00And so that kind of technicality, for me, is more important.
08:05And then I really hope it conveys beautifully.
08:10Kano has so many great one-liners.
08:13You dickheads in or what?
08:14Do you have any favorite Kano-isms this time around that were especially fun?
08:18Look, I'll be totally honest with you.
08:20Once I say them, I kind of forget about them and then just move on.
08:24So I genuinely don't really remember what I even said.
08:28And I've not yet seen the film.
08:29And I'm very much looking forward to seeing it tomorrow.
08:32I get to watch it.
08:33But, yeah, you know, Kano, he's kind of part insult comic.
08:39You know, he's part Rickles.
08:41He just comes out and just roasts people for no reason.
08:46But what I love about Kano is, you know, he's a mercenary and he's tough and stuff.
08:51But his references are kind of like pop culture, like Harry Potter and stuff.
08:57So he's watching Magic Mike.
08:59I guess he watches those movies.
09:00And that's what I like about Kano is that there's, you know, he kind of exists in this amazing world
09:06of Mortal Kombat.
09:08But he's also, yeah, I guess he also Netflix and Chills as well, you know.
09:14We contain multitudes.
09:15Kano can do both.
09:18Are you shitting me?
09:19You don't have any pounds.
09:20Just incredibly handsome.
09:22Oh, no, stop me!
