Speaker 1: jean Danker drives you home on cartoons, cartoons. Hi, I'm
Speaker 1: jean Denker. Welcome to the mortal kombat interview podcast in
Speaker 1: case mr on it on the air. I had the
Speaker 1: opportunity to chat with the stars of the movie Chin
Speaker 1: han Who plays the evil shang Tsung jo Jocelyn plays
Speaker 1: sub zero. Jessica McNamee is sonya Blade, josh Lawson is
Speaker 1: K No, there's a new character. Cole young played by
Speaker 1: Lewis Tan and Jax played by macarthur brooks. The movies
Speaker 1: out now, rated M 18. Alright, here's the interview.
Speaker 1: Class 95. Hi joe. Hi neighbor. Listen, you are so
Speaker 1: scary as sub zero. I was terrified. Just vicious and violent.
Speaker 1: It was just perfect. It must have been pretty easy
Speaker 1: for you to do those scenes. I mean your martial artists,
Speaker 1: you represented Indonesia for many years in judo. How how
Speaker 1: was it like for you? It was not that easy
Speaker 1: because this movie is definitely the first time I had
Speaker 1: to wear costumes and I needed to still go crazy.
Speaker 1: I had 10 kg attached to my body and I
Speaker 1: still need to go fast. I think I had like
Speaker 1: neck pain, back pain first two weeks because my body
Speaker 1: is adjusting with the weight. After three weeks, I didn't
Speaker 1: feel like it's a costume anymore.
Speaker 1: Hey, I bet your kids were stoked that you're in
Speaker 1: mortal kombat. I mean it's sub zero. Their favorite character.
Speaker 1: I hope so. Well, he encouraged me to get the part.
Speaker 1: When the opera came, I asked him about it and
Speaker 1: then I didn't tell him that the african Sub zero.
Speaker 1: I asked him which character in mortal kombat that fits
Speaker 1: me the most. And his first answer was sub zero.
Speaker 1: So I was like why? Yeah, why? Because he said
Speaker 1: like because you look like the guy in the game,
Speaker 1: the subject in the game, you look like him. I
Speaker 1: thought it was you.
Speaker 1: Oh okay. Yeah, he's, he's proud. He's proud. He, he
Speaker 1: brags every day. He said like you got the role
Speaker 1: because I encourage you. Okay, okay, take it easy, take
Speaker 1: it easy my son. And we got Chin han here, Hey,
Speaker 1: chignon gene, it's been a while. Hey, you have a
Speaker 1: knack of playing these bad guy characters, incredibly Cheng han.
Speaker 1: And this time around is this powerful warlock that's evil
Speaker 1: absorbing the souls to retain youth. Did you have a
Speaker 1: lot of fun with that? I did. I did. I
Speaker 1: mean these kinds of roles are the most fun to
Speaker 1: play right? Because you know what I mean. They're so diabolical.
Speaker 1: You're allowed to indulge all your, your worst instincts. So
Speaker 1: I mean it was, it was a lot of fun
Speaker 1: to play on top of the fact that I got
Speaker 1: to wear a cool costume
Speaker 1: that was very, very heavy to wear though, but it
Speaker 1: was fun. Hey, I was going to ask did you,
Speaker 1: did you keep anything from the set? Like some parts
Speaker 1: of your costume? Maybe I keep thinking I did, but no, no,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, I think you, you will not
Speaker 1: be able to get any part of the costume past
Speaker 1: customs
Speaker 1: by the way because then the metal detectors would just
Speaker 1: go off like crazy for one thing but it is heavy.
Speaker 1: I mean all the pieces, the breastplate, the shoulder plates,
Speaker 1: the armor on the forearms that stuff was was you
Speaker 1: know a lot of fun to wear but you know
Speaker 1: I don't quite miss it josh. Did you keep anything
Speaker 1: from your character keano and Jessica? Did you keep anything
Speaker 1: from your character Sonya blade? I kept my neck and
Speaker 1: my earrings. I was really bummed to find out that
Speaker 1: like I probably should have asked to keep one of
Speaker 1: my knives. Yeah honestly I didn't keep anything. I really
Speaker 1: wish I had when I become unemployed and I will
Speaker 1: I will I will sell I should have been able
Speaker 1: to sell one of those. Yeah I did but I
Speaker 1: didn't I didn't keep anything. I think other people did
Speaker 1: get some souvenirs from, from set but I was not
Speaker 1: smart enough.
Speaker 1: I read that when you were six, Chin han your
Speaker 1: parents asked you what you wanted for your birthday and
Speaker 1: you said you wanted to go to the movies, How
Speaker 1: do you feel about this full circle moment you wanted
Speaker 1: to do all that and look at you now. I
Speaker 1: mean making movies. Chin han it's very surreal you know,
Speaker 1: especially with a movie like mortal kombat right? I mean
Speaker 1: I think I remember going to
Speaker 1: the cinema in Singapore. I think I was still in
Speaker 1: school at that time. You know, watching all these guys,
Speaker 1: you know, kicking as and I think I think even
Speaker 1: at that time there were more asian, you know, actors
Speaker 1: in that film than than most films at the time
Speaker 1: in the nineties loving it and then running out, you know,
Speaker 1: straight after to get myself a cassette tape from one
Speaker 1: of the stores Centrepoint or something, you know, and that's
Speaker 1: the type of mortal kombat. And then listening, listening to
Speaker 1: it over and over again. So from that, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: to now talking about the movie that I just finished
Speaker 1: mortal kombat playing, sharing some, it's such a meta moment.
Speaker 1: I don't quite know how to describe how I'm feeling,
Speaker 1: but I mean, it's very surreal.
Speaker 1: Speaking about the cassette tape of mortal kombat, I was
Speaker 1: thrilled that the iconic techno song was in this new
Speaker 1: mortal kombat movie. Do you know it would you do
Speaker 1: a little bit of it for us? Do do do
Speaker 1: do do do do do mortal kombat. Mortal kombat. And
Speaker 1: so it's very
Speaker 1: how much do you remember of yourself on Masters of
Speaker 1: the Sea? It was a blur. What I do remember
Speaker 1: of it was that I had this very long floppy
Speaker 1: hair at that time. I think Hugh Brown was a thing,
Speaker 1: you know, in the in the nineties, I had done
Speaker 1: my four weddings and a funeral and Notting Hill and
Speaker 1: I kind of did that hairstyle as a tribute to
Speaker 1: Hugh Grant in four weddings and a funeral. I think
Speaker 1: that's what I remember of that tv series, Good hair,
Speaker 1: you know
Speaker 1: we got Lewistown who plays a new character, cole young
Speaker 1: and mortal kombat and scott brooks who plays Jack, the
Speaker 1: guy with the bionic arms, Lewis, let's start with you.
Speaker 1: I heard you did 100% of your fight scenes, tell
Speaker 1: us about it. I do 100% of my fights for
Speaker 1: all of my films and shows up into this point,
Speaker 1: especially for this film. It's crucial because as an actor
Speaker 1: who also has been studying martial arts for 20 years,
Speaker 1: I need to deliver that performance. It's part of the
Speaker 1: emotional journey of the character and it's part of the
Speaker 1: experience that I want audiences to have when they see
Speaker 1: my character's arc. So it's just something that's important to
Speaker 1: me and something that I've learned through my father who
Speaker 1: was a stunt coordinator and a stuntman for years growing
Speaker 1: up that it's rare to see that and there's only
Speaker 1: a handful of actors that do that and for my
Speaker 1: personal legacy and to represent martial artists and actors who
Speaker 1: do martial arts, it had to be done, although it
Speaker 1: was very very, very tiring. Some of the stunts I
Speaker 1: did also market your character is bad, asks how weird
Speaker 1: was it to shoot with those bionic arms,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to get into the movie magic of,
Speaker 1: of of how visual effects did that only because I
Speaker 1: don't know if I'm allowed to, but I can say
Speaker 1: that there's a lot of layers happening and I had
Speaker 1: like 45 extra pounds on my body of muscle. It
Speaker 1: was kind of crazy just learning how to move in
Speaker 1: that physicality in and of itself. Uh this is my
Speaker 1: first fight movie. It's something I definitely want to do again.
Speaker 1: I had the greatest time doing it, emulating joe Frazier
Speaker 1: and mike Tyson and also Jacks from the game, the
Speaker 1: way he moves, the way he bounces. So it was
Speaker 1: a great time for me.
Speaker 1: Now let's talk about the characters in mortal kombat. If
Speaker 1: they're say was a cute cat in the room, which
Speaker 1: mortal kombat character do you think would be the first
Speaker 1: to give it a cuddle and a little pat on
Speaker 1: the head? Maybe that is the greatest question. I mean
Speaker 1: I think everybody would cuddle and they would just do
Speaker 1: it in different ways. Sub zero would freeze the cat score.
Speaker 1: Vision would burn the cattle live Jax would try to
Speaker 1: cuddle a cat and crush it by mistake. Oh my
Speaker 1: hands are too strong
Speaker 1: is looky looky Jessica josh. You guys agree. I was
Speaker 1: just thinking it could be ludie I think yeah, I
Speaker 1: feel like Luigi is luke and I feel like not
Speaker 1: only cartilage but somehow figure out how to talk to it.
Speaker 1: Like if you know ludie you feel like that actually
Speaker 1: isn't impossible? Yeah, he would be like, you know, you
Speaker 1: just look at the cat for a second and he's
Speaker 1: traveled a long way. Like how do you not joe?
Speaker 1: What say you? I want to say Gorrell the monster
Speaker 1: with the forearms because goro is still vicious and scary,
Speaker 1: but I think kat is his weakness, he cannot kill cat.
Speaker 1: He just, he's just a cat person. And what about you?
Speaker 1: I think Molina will be the first
Speaker 1: character to cuddle it because you know, Molina would then
Speaker 1: go on to eat it now, joe. Which mortal kombat
Speaker 1: character do you think would be on a dating app,
Speaker 1: definitely sub zero probably because he's cold. He don't know
Speaker 1: how to speak with women. He needs an app to
Speaker 1: just break the ice.
Speaker 1: Oh, mine definitely on his profile. Would be like snazzy
Speaker 1: dresser sense of humor, like long walks on beaches. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that that would be, that would be Langston's profile. Alright.
Speaker 1: Lewis and Mccarty, which mortal kombat character is most likely
Speaker 1: to slide into someone's DM? No comment here. I have,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm gonna go with call on that one
Speaker 1: for sure. Alright, okay, okay, Okay, Okay, Okay, okay. We'll
Speaker 1: hear his name called young Mike slide inappropriately and then
Speaker 1: and then it would be like, what's up? All right
Speaker 1: back to you, joe. Which mortal kombat character do you think?
Speaker 1: Would you know, take the most selfies,
Speaker 1: cole young because he is, he's so handsome. He's just
Speaker 1: beautiful creature. He has beautiful hair, beautiful skin and he's new,
Speaker 1: new kid, new kid on the block. So he's probably like,
Speaker 1: I'm with the boys. Hey guys, let's do this one
Speaker 1: more for you guys, Lewis and like cod. Which mortal
Speaker 1: kombat character would be into? Black Pink? Oh baby Jack's
Speaker 1: you like, like dude, let's go. Good music is good music.
Speaker 1: I knew that we were friends for a reason, man,
Speaker 1: definitely me, McAda were big blinks and we want to
Speaker 1: get invited to the next concert. So shout out black
Speaker 1: pink meat.
Speaker 1: Just blame me, jean danker drives you home on cartoons, cartoons.