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