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[latinoreview.com] Comic Con Interview: The Cast On Ninja Assassin
Hey Party people “El Guero” here with the brilliant Director James McTeguie along with a couple of the co-stars of his new film Ninja Assassin. Ji Hoon Jung is making his US debut in this film and talk about his training for the film. Naomi Harris joins and fills us in on what it was like to be a part of this action packed project enjoy…
McTeigue: Original story. We were talking about doing it when we were making "Speed Racer" over the summer. And we had like a small martial arts component to that. Rain was in that. We'd been talking about making a ninja movie for some years and then it seemed like it would be a good time to do it with Rain and then root the story in something that had good narrative and good character development, which is where Naomie came in because there's a great female character in the film as well.
Rain, will you talk a little about your character? And why you were attracted to this?
Rain: Yeah. "Ninja Assassin" is a big martial arts film and my role is Raizo who's an orphan growing up as a ninja assassin. I love my character. He's a very nice guy. [LAUGHS]
What makes you say nice if he's an assassin?
Rain: I helped too many people, you know and then I killed too many ninja and you know it was my good experience and yeah, I love my character.
Can we talk about your character a little bit. We saw her a little bit in the trailer.
Harris: Well Mika Coretti is the name of my character and she's a forensic researcher and she has this obsession with ninjas because she happens upon a piece of evidence that to her proves that ninjas exist whereby everybody else believes that they don't. And so she continues with this obsession until actually her fantasy world becomes real and she becomes sucked into an adventure with Rain's character.
What led you to take this?
Harris: What led me to take the role? [?] reasons really, working with James. I didn't know how fabulous that was going to be until I started the movie. But it was the script really. It was just a great character and it was well rounded and like I said before it's like action movies generally are just based normally just on action and without central characters that you really care about and can go on a journey with, they mean nothing. That's for you. [LAUGHS] That's for my review. I thought it was so cheap to get a good review, come on. He liked me? Give me the cake back. No, sorry, yeah, so it's just about an action movie basically where there are really rounded central characters and also characters with great relationships between each other I think makes a really superb action movie because you actually care about the journey that the characters are going on. And it's not just meaningless violence. It actually means something and it's going somewhere. Yeah.
Pretty good. [LAUGHS] How much physical preparation was involved?
Harris: For me, very little at all, which was great. But for Rain like four months of every day six days a week, twelve hour days?
Rain: Yeah.
Harris: Yeah.
What sort of training was involved specifically?
Rain: I learned you know I have a lot of you know teachers, I learned you know these techniques in Taekwondo, Korean martial arts, yeah. You know every time you know every day I throw up. [LAUGHS] It was really hard. You know it almost killed me.
Harris: He's not lying about the throwing up because I had one session where they worked me out you know to kind of just know what Rain was going through every day and I actually physically threw up in the toilet. It's so intense. Like he went through a lot.
McTeigue: He did amazing discipline work, you know he was taught with like, you know it was really hard to get someone to fight like with two swords. He can do that extraordinarily well. We had like a blade and chain thing, which is really kind of complicated to throw around and besides the other martial arts aspects he did versions of [?] you know like free running and you know conquered it really well. You know I've done a lot of martial arts over the years with a lot of different actors and he was pretty extraordinary at it. And to see his transformation from the guy who used to drink beer and eat chocolate to you know [?] came up to me one day and said Rain's just got one question for you and I said, what's that? I thought it was going to be like some sort of serious you know question. He goes when can I eat chocolate again? [LAUGHS]
Rain: From the moment you know I'd been controlling my mind and menu with you know chicken breasts and vegetables. Yeah. I never work out again. [LAUGHS]
Now you're back on the chocolate are you?
Rain: Yeah. Every day.
Even with the throwing up, didn't it feel awesome to do what you could do after that?
Rain: Very shame. You know it's you know so horrible. Yeah.
McTeigue: I think you're right, it's kind of like addictive though, too. I think it's like at the point that you get into, you know not to talk foreign, but I could see at the point you know you get into that zone with your body, you just don't want to let anything invade it that's going to let you down you know because like at some point for three months or for four months or six months, he was still kind of you know trying to be in the zone. It is a pretty amazing transformation.
Rain, how different are the Comic Con fans to your regular music fans?
Rain: Okay, I speak Korean a little bit. [KOREAN]
Translator: To me, the music fans and the movie fans are the same. That's to say I like both. I think it's import!ant to harbor them both.
Do you find Comic Con really crazy? Have you been here before?
Rain: It's my first time.
How is it for you?
Rain: It's exciting. Yeah. Yeah.
Was it strange having 6000 people during the panel.
Rain: Always for me, sometimes screen, sometimes you know I love my fans and yeah. They are my everything.
How has it been for you coming to ComicCon with this movie?
McTeigue: It's good, you know. I mean it's great to--
Your first time?
McTeigue: Yeah, it's the first time. I wasn't here on "V" because we were doing scoring in London at the time so I couldn't make it out. But a lot of my friends are you know graphic artists and comic book guys and so they've told me about it over the years. But you know it's great just to come to somewhere that's completely fan-based, you know. Like you really kind of get like an amazing sense of what people love, what they like, what they don't like you know, what they're interested in. It's a pretty good forum to bring a film to, actually.
James, your last film was very much billed as a vision from the Wachowski brothers. Is this much more a James McTeigue vision?
McTeigue: Yeah, well you know I guess that's the way the last one was promoted I guess, which you know I understand. No, "V" was my film. This is my film. You know it's what I was interested in, it's what I wanted to do. Yeah you know it was a good film to make. There's a lot of elements that I was really interested in this film like Naomie was saying. You know I really like strong female characters and Naomie's character in the film is a strong female character. I think it's probably you know what attracted her to it in the first place. And then you know with Rain there was a good you know martial arts component. And it was about melding those two together, you know bringing like a different form of film in the market, I guess.
What attracted you to filmmaking in the first place?
McTeigue: I guess my father was obsessed by films. You know layman obsessed by that I guess. He grew up with the golden era of Hollywood I guess and he sort of imbued that into me and my brothers. And once I went to University, then I started like I did a film major there, then I started working in film almost--
Where did you go?
McTeigue: In Sydney, Australia.
Could you talk about Sho Kosugi's involvement. If you're doing a ninja film, he's pretty much the guy to go to. How did he get involved?
McTeigue: He got involved because I thought it would be you know a good homage. You know he was in so many of those films. But if you talk to him he'll tell you he was only in like three, but he's forever known as being in ninja films. And I just wondered where he was, you know wondered what he was up to these days. And he went off and formed some martial arts schools in America and Japan so he hadn't been in movies for a while. And I thought it would be good if he was like the clan master. He'd be a good kind of homage back to the ninja films of the past. So yeah, we rang him up and we asked him actually. [LAUGHS] He came in, screen tested, thought he was good so we put him in the film. Yeah.
What's next?
Rain: Next project? I don't know yet, but I wish my next film would be love story with James with Naomie.
Harris: And no action.
Rain: Take me!
There can be action but not that kind of action.
McTeigue: The next film he's in is called Ninja Lover. [LAUGHS]
Rain: Nice.
Harris: I want to see that one.
Rain: With sword and chain.
McTeigue: Sword and chain under the bed.
Rain: It's new stuff.
Harris: That sounds really interesting.
From: Benamoo
导演:剧本是原创的.在去年夏天拍Speed Racer的时候,我们就有了这个想法.因为Speed Racer里
有一些功夫的场面，Rain也参与了拍摄。这些年来，我们常常谈到拍一部关于忍者的电影，而我们
觉得让Rain来主演是个好主意。他们（沃卓斯基兄弟）创作了故事的基础，有很好的情节和角色发
展，而Naomie也在此时参与进来了，她觉得电影里的女主角形象很棒。
记者:Rain,请谈谈你的角色吧？为什么你对这个角色感兴趣呢？
Rain:好的。Ninja Assassin是功夫大片，我的角色从小在培养忍者杀手的孤儿院长大。我很喜欢
这个角色。他是一个很好的人（笑）
记者:他是一个杀手，你为什么说他是好人呢？
Rain:我帮助了很多人，我也杀了很多忍者。我很喜欢这段经历，是的，我喜欢这个角色。
记者:Naomie，请谈谈你的角色。刚才的片花中我看到了一点她的镜头
Naomie：她的名字是Mika Coretti ，她是一个探员。她对忍者非常着迷，因为某一事件让她相信
了忍者的存在，而别人都以为那是不存在的。她执迷于此，直到一天，她幻想中的世界变成了真实
存在。而她和Rain的角色被卷入了一场冒险。
记者:你为什么会接拍这部电影？
Naomie：为什么接拍？真正的原因是。。。与导演的合作。。。直到真正开拍，我才明白那是多么
奇妙。剧本是我接拍的真正原因，角色的刻画很丰满。我之前也说过，通常动作片都着重于动作场
面，角色都太单薄，让观众无法感同身受。下面这段话是对你说的（笑）这是我的评论。我觉得动
作片太轻易就能得到好的评论。。。对不起。。。总之这部电影的角色很完整，而且主角之间有着
深切的联系。我觉得这会是一部超级动作片，因为你会真正地关心主角们的命运。而且片中的暴力
都不是无中生有，而是有前因后果的。
记者:很好（笑）你在体能上做了提前准备吗？
Naomie：万幸，我几乎不用。但Rain受了四个月的训练，一星期六天，每天12小时，对吗？
Rain: 是的
Naomie：是吧
记者:你的训练具体是什么？
Rain:我有很多老师，跆拳道的，武术的。而且每天我都会呕吐（笑）非常艰难，我快被折磨死了
Naomie：他说的呕吐是真的，他们为了让我体验Rain每天受的魔鬼训练，给我也上了一课，我真的
累得在洗手间吐了。非常剧烈的训练，他历尽了艰辛
导演：他为电影做的基本功准备是惊人的。因为同时使用两把剑来打斗是非常难的。而他做得非常
好。我们还有刀和类似铁链的武器，要挥舞它们是很复杂的事情，他还学了很多其他的武功，例如
跑酷，他都学得非常好。过去我拍了很多武打的戏，和许多演员合作过，而他是其中最棒的。而且
你知道吗，他以前可是喜欢啤酒和巧克力的人。有一天，工作人员来找我，说Rain有事情要问我。
我以为是什么重大的问题。结果他问的是:我什么时候才能开禁吃巧克力？（笑）
Rain:从受训开始，我就严格控制意志和食谱，只吃鸡胸肉和蔬菜。啊，以后我再也不要做健身了
（笑）
记者:现在你可以吃回巧克力了吧？
Rain:当然，每天都吃！
记者:尽管你练到呕吐，但自己能做到这一切，你不觉得自豪吗？
Rain 关于呕吐)太不好意思了，真是可怕的经历
导演：你说得对，这是一种惯性。就像你的身体达到某种状态，而你不想让别的东西侵入这种状态
，因为在几个月的训练里，你的身体都试图保持这种状态。你的转变让我们觉得惊叹！
记者:Rain，在漫画展看到的粉丝和你的歌迷有什么不同？
Rain:嗯，我想用韩语来回答（说韩语）
翻译：对我来说，影迷和歌迷都是一样的。我两者都爱，都很珍惜
记者:你感受到漫画展的狂热了吗？以前你来过吗？
Rain:我是第一次参加
记者:你感觉如何？
Rain:让人感觉很兴奋，是的
记者:在一个展厅就有6000人，很夸张吧？
Rain:（此句不明）我很爱粉丝们，是的，她们是我的一切
记者:导演，你参加漫画展的感受如何？
导演：非常好，我的意思是，很棒！
记者:你是第一次来吗？
导演：是的，第一次。在‘V字仇杀队’来此宣传时，我没能出席，因为我在伦敦弄电影的配乐。但
我有很多朋友是视觉效果师，漫画作家，他们常常对我提到漫画展。这样一个粉丝聚集的地方真是
太棒了！可以直接感受到观众的喜恶。对电影的创作很有好处。
记者:导演，你的上一部作品被认为有太厚重的沃卓斯基兄弟的影子，这次的电影是否有更多你个
人的风格？
导演：我想这是他们宣传上部电影的方式，我对此表示理解。但‘V字仇杀队’是我执导的，是我真
正感兴趣的，想做的电影。像Naomie说过的，Ninja Assassin有很多元素都是我的个人意图。我喜
欢强悍的女性角色，Naomie在剧中的角色正是如此。我觉得这是吸引她参演的首因。然后Rain的参
演是非常好的功夫元素。电影融合了这两个因素，这会是一部突破传统的电影，我想。
记者:你最初是如何进入电影制作领域的？
导演：我爸爸是个电影迷。我猜，一般的人都容易对电影着迷吧。他生活在好莱坞的黄金时期里，
而他把这些灌输给了我和我的兄弟们。我进大学后，选了电影专业，开始进入这一行
记者:你在哪里上的大学？
导演：澳大利亚，悉尼
记者:请谈谈Sho Kosugi在本片中的演出。他似乎是演忍者最佳的人选。你们是怎么想到请他的？
导演：我请他参演是出于一种致敬。因为他拍过很多忍者电影。和他谈起时，他只记得三部，但他
却成了忍者电影的代名词。我很想找到他，想知道他之后做了什么。原来他淡出银幕后，在美国和
日本开了功夫学校。我觉得他很适合扮演忍者的师傅。他的出演可算是对过去忍者电影的致敬。所
以我们给他打电话，询问他的意愿（笑）他来了，通过了试镜，我们觉得他很棒，就这样他加入了
电影。
记者:下一步是什么？
Rain:下一部电影？我还不知道，但我希望下部电影是和导演，Naomie合作的爱情故事
Naomie：没有动作场面
Rain:算我一个！
记者:可以有动作，但不是(忍者)那种
导演：他的下部电影叫做‘忍者情人’（笑）
Rain:很好
Naomie：我想看这部电影
Rain:（电影里）有剑和铁链
导演：剑和铁链藏在床底下
Rain:又是个新主意
Naomie：听起来很有趣
翻译转自心灵自雨吧 BY rainalice亲 From Baidu Rain Bar
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