"The female version of Bruce Lee?" Hong Kong martial arts actress Situ Yuyun starred in "Fist on Vengeance", and her ankle was seriously injured and she endured the pain of fighting herself!
Directed by Dutch director Roel Reiné and starring Indonesian martial arts actor Iko Uwais, Mortal Kombat actors Lewis Tan and Lawrence Kao and Hong Kong martial arts actress Situ Yuyun (formerly known as Chen Yuyun, JuJu), the film is a spin-off of the Netflix series Wu Assassins. "Hong Kong 01" found the heroine Szeto Yuyun for an interview, in addition to talking about the experience of injury during the filming of the film, she also shared the difference between Hong Kong-made action films and Hollywood active films.
Situ Yuyun, 33, moved to the United States with his family at the age of 3, and at the age of 10, he was exposed to martial arts and began learning judo. After that, I slowly came into contact with different schools of kung fu, including karate, Hong Quan, Wing Chun, Taekwondo, Double Knuckle Stick and Muay Thai. After graduating from the Computer Science Department at the University of San Francisco, she completed a master's program at the New York University School of Film and Television. She entered Miss Chinatown in 2009 and won the TVB My Favourite Belle Championship. The following year she ran for Miss Hong Kong, when some media called her "the Filipino version of Xie Tingting", but she later withdrew.
In addition, JuJu, who has been exposed to martial arts since childhood, was a taekwondo athlete who competed in the 18th International Taekwondo Federation World Championships in Hong Kong in 2013 and won a gold and bronze medal at the 8th China Taekwondo Open Championships. After that, JuJu, who starred in several action movies, was called the "female version of Bruce Lee".
Although Hong Kong audiences may not be impressed by JuJu, she has performed in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: The Sword of the Green Hell, directed by Yuan Heping, "Jiu Jitsu" with Oscar-winning actress Nicolas Cage, and Bruce Lee in Wing Chun Xiaolong. In recent years, she has starred in the movie "Fist on Vengeance" on Netflix, ranking third in Hong Kong as the most popular movie of the day. Talking about the feelings of filming "Fist on Vengeance" this time, she said: "I was one of the protagonists of "Five Elements Assassin", and after filming this drama, I wanted to start filming the film version, but this film version is not a direct continuation of the series, it is an independent story: "The crew brought back some of the actors to participate in this work, so there was Iko, Lewis, Lawrence and me, the only woman who came back to perform the film." 」
JuJu couldn't hide his excitement when he mentioned the chance to play against Iko Uwais this time: "My main purpose is to play against Iko, so I'm so happy." He is recognized worldwide as a new generation of Asian stars, with Tony Jaa. I've worked with Tony Jaa on Judo, and I've worked with Iko on a TV series, but I've never had a fight with the two of them, so I'm honored to have two matches with Iko this time."
JuJu later talked about two serious injuries during the filming, but she chose to finish the shooting with pain. She said: "After completing the two-week interval in the Thai hotel, the first week of training was 'hard wood', and it was quite serious, because I did a 720-degree turn and kick, but the ankle landed. A lot of people rushed over to help me put on the ice right away, and I said, "Nothing, nothing, of course, it's dead endurance," and then I continued pretending to be nothing."
JuJu believes that shooting this kind of film in the morning is expected to be damaged: "Being an action actor is too tin body, there are many opportunities... If you see me "struggling", you won't let me do difficult movements, you use a stand-in, but I don't want people to feel that I'm hurt, I can't do it." In the end, after two weeks of swelling and bruising on even my lower leg, through ice and painkillers, I fortunately recovered 70% to 80% before the shooting began: "There are insurance companies and medical teams, but I didn't make a sound, I endured the pain all the way." They asked me if I needed to be admitted to the hospital, and I said no." In addition to this injury before filming, during the filming of a narrow alley scene, she hit the camera on the forehead, and the blood flowed immediately: "I have to stitch myself, but I asked them to use butterfly stitches, which was about an inch." 」
Later, JuJu also talked about the epidemic raging during the filming, Netflix's epidemic prevention work is very rigorous: "So rigorous, divided into red, yellow and green three districts, the red zone should wear all the equipment, except for the actors can remove masks, other staff can not, and the green zone is where we eat." We needed to go to the epidemic prevention workshop before shooting, the epidemic prevention personnel prepared on the set, tested every two days, and no one in the whole crew was infected."
Finally, when asked about The difference between JuJu, who has participated in Hong Kong action films and Hollywood event films, she pointed out: "Hong Kong action dramas will not have pre-training time, go to the scene to do the move, the scene is done, you can't do it will find a stand-in, just like filming "Kowloon Undefeated", I fight with Zhang Jin, Dong Wei (action director) instant move. From medium to large productions of Hollywood, there will be a month of pre-training, and some even large enough to have half a year of training."
JuJu went on to explain that there was a pre-production session called "Previs" in Hollywood's play: "The stuntman is in charge, and special effects will be added for the director to see if it is appropriate, but there will be no such link in Hong Kong, it is the American way." 」 And JuJu's "Previs" before filming "The Five Elements Assassin" was personally involved: "There are requirements for action scenes, and they will not go to the point where people feel unprepared."
Finally, when asked if Asian stars are still popular in Hollywood, she said yes: "I just filmed in the United States, it is also an action movie, and american action scenes will look for me, even if they fail to choose in the end, they will look for me to audition." 」 Because he knows how to play, can speak fluent English, and has an Asian face, and there are not many young people. Nowadays, the United States likes diversity, so every play will have a different face. They find Asian women attracted to kung fu, so at least there will be an Asian man or woman who fights, so there are more opportunities."
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