"I'm a pacifist, but it makes me realize that if I had to, I could fight," Brooks adds. I learned how to move like Jax in the video game by watching a ton of footage of Mike Tyson and Joe Frazier, and I trained in choreography and boxing five days a week." I was so clumsy I was falling up the stairs. "I gained 45 pounds of muscle none of my clothes fit. I was working out six days a week, sometimes twice a day, even if we were shooting," Brooks says. But actor Mechad Brooks ( Supergirl, True Blood) also worked hard to transform his body and performance to match the intensity of one of Mortal Kombat's most popular characters -with some surprising results. Method's special effects team also took on cyborg Jackson Briggs' enormous mechanical arms. "I think the guys at Method, the visual effects company in Melbourne, Australia, are incredibly talented and did a great job. "Early on, we'd done some experiments and I knew that it would be a long process to get him to sit inside this film as elegantly as possible," McQuoid remembers. "And I'm delighted with how Kabal turned out."īut if there is one character that made the director nervous, it would be Goro, the four-armed, half-human, half-dragon who was hilariously puppeteered in the '90s movie. "Some extra characters were purposely held back a bit, and I think Nitara at this point has been undersold," McQuoid teases. also dropped more international teasers and trailers over the past week to showcase more characters that will show up in the film, including Kabal, Reptile, and Nitara. Keeping the hype train moving, Warner Bros. "Look, I'm worried that after it comes out, people are going to start challenging me on Twitch, and there's no way I'm losing as Liu Kang to any fan." "Four months before the movie started shooting, MK11 was the bulk of my training. The actor kept the game in his trailer while shooting and would challenge other cast members. "My favorite Sub-Zero fatality is in MK11," Taslim shares. Naturally, the cast went through plenty of martial arts training to prepare for the movie, but Lin, Taslim, and most of the cast played the Mortal Kombat 11 video game as well. But once you watch the film, I think it's going to blow your mind," he says. "You can already see a lot of fatalities and fight scenes in the trailer. Huang is just as excited for fans to see Easter eggs from the game in the film. And I think that speaks to the inner child inside each of us that really enjoys it for just the fun of it." " Mortal Kombat is such a violent and gory game," Lin says, "but the fans are all just lovely people. Actor and martial artist Ludi Lin ( Power Rangers, Aquaman) and Jackie Chan-trained stunt performer Max Huang ( Kingsman, The Foreigner) joined the fight to play Liu Kang and Kung Lao, respectively. The wait proved to worth it once the next cast members were announced. "I called the producer and asked him, 'Are you guys still doing this? This movie isn't just about Sub-Zero, right?'" Garner and his team assured the Indonesian action star that the movie was indeed still happening - they were simply looking for the best actors to play alongside him in the film. "I thought they canceled or postponed the movie at first," Taslim says. But it took McQuoid, producer Todd Garner, and the casting team so long to complete their meticulous casting process that Taslim got a little nervous. Taslim was the first actor cast in the film as cryomancer assassin Bi-Han, aka Sub-Zero. If fans are getting impatient, Joe Taslim ( Warrior, The RAID) can relate.
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