Henry Golding, the male protagonist of "Picking Gold", turns into an action star and talks about the new film "Special Forces: Snake's Eye Origins"
Reported by Maggie Ma los Angeles
Video loading...
In addition to the recently released "Mortal Kombat" and the upcoming "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings" in September, there is also a comic adaptation action film "Snake Eyes", which brings together three super-good and handsome Asian male stars, which will meet the audience on July 23. The film released its first trailer at the MTV Movie Awards on May 16, and the response was good. Actor Henry Golding said in an interview with the American News Express online that he actively trained martial arts for the film for more than two months and personally completed 98% of the action scenes.
Snake's Eye is a spin-off of paramount's G.I.Joe series of comic book adaptations, based on the American comic book of the same name. The U.S. government formed the Special Forces G.I. Joe to defend the country, and the film tells the origin story of one of the key members and one of the most popular characters in the comic book, "Snake's Eye".
Snakeeye was originally a special soldier who participated in the Vietnam War, but was seriously injured on the battlefield, and was later rescued by his comrade -- Storm Shadow, who trained him to become a ninja with superb combat skills. He specializes in martial arts, Japanese swords and daggers, but also uses other weapons, usually wearing black and masks, and is quick to move.
In the previous "Special Forces" movie series, Snakeeye wore a mask most of the time, but under the mask was a white British actor, but this reinterpretation of the origin story was replaced by Asian descent, and played by Henry Golding, the actor of "Picking Gold".
Henry Golding, a mixture of Malaysian and British descent, starred in "The Golden Hunt" as the wealthy man Nick Young, who was popular for his handsome appearance and gentlemanly conversation, and then received three Hollywood movies in "Last Christmas", "A Simple Favor" and "The Gentlemen", sharing the stage with stars such as Matthew McConaughey and Blake Lively. Prior to that, he was a TV host, and he was unexpectedly recommended to audition for "Picking Gold" before he began his career as an actor, and he had no martial arts skills before.
This time he made full preparations for his first action film. Henry said that during the filming of "Last Christmas" in 2018, he began to train and work out martial arts for 4-5 hours a day, which lasted for more than two months. He described the "Snake Eye" action scenes as very fluid as dancing, requiring repeated practice and memorizing a series of movements with the help of an action guide, and was proud that 98% of the action scenes enabled in the final film were completed by himself. Even before this film, Henry's figure has been kept very good, and it was also shown in the 2019 suspense film "A Simple Favor".
Henry said that the role of "Snake Eye" is actually not racially restricted, he was originally an ordinary soldier, but he had a series of misfortunes, became silent after encountering many changes, and was sent to Japan for training, and began to contact a lot of combat skills that he did not know before. Henry believes that audiences who have seen this origin film will have a deeper understanding and sympathy for the "snake's eye" behind the mask.
Henry also mentioned that in fact, audiences around the world are familiar with Chinese action stars such as Jackie Chan, Bruce Lee, Zhen Zidan, Jet Li, etc., but before that, Hollywood film companies and media have not been able to pay enough attention to Asian actors, rarely inviting them to play the main roles in American stories. And now, more Asian-American actors, including him and Liu Simu, have the opportunity to go to the big screen to become the male number one and represent the Asian audience, which is a fortunate thing, and thanks to the many predecessors who have opened the door for them. He also hopes that Hollywood studios will look for Asians in the future not only because this is a "popular trend", but also because they can become a role that really watches movies, which is more suitable for actors, so that movies can represent different people in front of the screen.
In the newly exposed trailer, Henry Golding starred in "Snake's Eye" and others staged a fight scene on the roof of the car that told Flying Spur. Meanwhile, Andrew Koji, a Japanese-British actor who starred in the drama "Warrior," also appeared in the trailer as another member of the Special Forces, Storm Shadow. Indonesian star Iko Uwais starred in the film as "Snake's Eye" mentor, Master Hard. Both actors already have extensive experience in action movies. Úrsula Corberó, a Spanish actress of Asian descent, starred as "Baroness", one of the film's villains. The Baroness is an intelligence officer in the villain group COBRA in Special Forces, with long black hair, black-rimmed glasses, a love of black leather coats, and a cold, sexy and scheming outfit.
In 2009 and 2013, there was only one Asian in the two "Special Forces" films, and now almost all of the casts are Asian, which does show the change in the status of Asian actors over the years.
"Special Forces: Snake's Eye Origins" will be released in theaters on July 23, and will be on streaming Paramount+ 45 days later
Source: American News Express (http://www.usnewsexpress.com) All rights reserved Reprint is strictly prohibited.