'Mortal Kombat II' Cast Interviews

And I wouldn't mind making out with a Karl Urban, so sure. There's a spin-off called Fifty Shades of Combat. Yeah, I'm definitely down for that. I think it'd be great. I don't know if I was allowed to say that. I'm gonna get cancelled. Tell me you're not some crazy fans. How are you doing that? Are you coming or what? It was actually quite a cool story in that I think Ed specifically asked for that not to come into play in this movie. I don't think he wanted Sonya's whole journey to just to be about finding a man, you know, which is great. I am sure if we continue to make them that that will be something that we get to explore. Yeah, that is an element of the evolution of Johnny Cage and Sonya's story that I very much look forward to play. I think that that'll be a fun extra dynamic to add to the ingredients and evolve these characters beyond just a work relationship or a fighting tournament relationship. Yeah, I'm definitely down for that. I think it'd be great. I was wondering if you saw any particularly epic or nauseating moments of practical effects. A lot of it was quite practical in some ways, so it was actually really cool. I guess the Johnny Baraka fight was to me the most certain aspects of that. Him going through the... My gosh, yeah. There's a stunt in there that's insane. Yeah, and watching it in real time was wild. I find you annoying. Johnny will definitely die. You looked incredible as Shao Kahn. What was that like for you? Horrible. But the thing is, what a lot of people wouldn't have understood through watching the film was the prosthetics and the level of prosthetics underneath the helmet was insane, like three and a half, four hours just to get the face and the body on, and then maybe an hour in wardrobe, and then obviously going to film throughout the day. Just the general problems that occur being in Australia in a film set with all the lights and the heat and so on, then you're wearing prosthetics, then obviously the amount of fight sequences that Shao has in this film, and intense fight sequences, that created so many problems and so much headache, to be honest, but never throughout the whole sequences and the whole filming of it did I ever feel that that was enough, I was done, I didn't want to carry on. It was so exciting, so well-rehearsed, such a good, solid story, and such an incredible character to play that even on those days where you are exhausted, dehydrated, and physically beaten, I still turned up with a smile on my face and excited to do it, so it was tough, it was hard, but extremely rewarding now we get to see the final product. Johnny Cage's fake movie really cracked me up, that sequence was so delightful. Yeah, well, it was a fun challenge because I've seen it done and I've seen it done well, I thought DiCaprio did a great job in Once Upon a Time and Hollywood, and just that subtle shift between the reality within the movie and the movie within the movie, so for me, I was really thinking about, okay, well, what's Johnny Cage's style of acting, and I thought that he was a martial arts actor that's trying to break out of martial arts movies into the mainstream, so he's trying to rip off Harrison Ford and Clint Eastwood, so some of the facial things you see him do in that movie, he does this point where he goes, and that is totally ripped off from Harrison Ford in Raiders of the Lost Ark, but that's the kind of acting, Harrison Ford makes it look cool, Johnny Cage, it just looks ridiculous, but yeah, just a lot of fun, a lot of fun. I was also curious to the process of deciding when and how often to include the moves from the games. I think we realized that we didn't need to do a lot of them, I don't know how many there are, I haven't counted them, but what we were talking about mostly was character, and how in these fights, in these pieces of action, how do the characters grow, and how do they get challenged, and how do they evolve through this, and so it becomes this layering process of just, and then thinking, okay, we've done that here, so let's wait a bit, and then we'll do this one over here, so it's just really just a balancing process. Shag, Mary, Kill, Shao Kahn, Joe Goldberg, or Lucifer from Sabrina. Oh my god, Shag, Mary, Kill? Okay, Kill, Lucifer. Great. Because, duh, Kill the Dark Lord. Shag, Joe Goldberg, and Mary, Shao Kahn, because he's got the power. Actually, I do that the other way. I do that the other way around. I'd go, yeah, I don't know if there's anybody that I want to marry. Sure, yeah. That's what's catching me up, but I'm like... That's fair, I think that's a solid assessment. Because I'm like, even marrying Joe Goldberg is dangerous territory. The Kung Lao fatality, that was so gnarly. It was so wild. What were your memories of bringing that super emotional and bloody and disgusting thing to life in this? I think we had so many discussions around that, because, I mean, if you look at that fatality, there's a lot in it, especially how it recalls to Kung Lao's fatality in the first movie, do you know what I mean? And that was the fatality that every single person remembered. So in the second movie, I think the whole point was we had so much feedback from the first movie, and we wanted to give the audience what they wanted. Also, we wanted to add another level of surprise. You can't just hand feed the audience, and I think that's how it came about. It's the perfect twist, and it's heartbreaking. It feels like... The first movie, for me, it feels like a bromance between Liu Kang and Kung Lao, how they were together anyway, and the second movie, it's like a heartbreaking... It's a break-up. It's a break-up story. It's a break-up story. Yeah, I love it. I thought that was super effective, for sure. Yeah. So is there a spin-off for you guys, too? Yeah, you can have your own romance. Brokeback Kombat. The what? Brokeback Kombat. We're cooking with gas over here. Solid idea. All the spin-offs. He's like, I wouldn't be able to show any of this interview. In what ways did your physicality change playing this different version of him? Well, I train a lot. Cardio, I train so much. And then, for sure, this one, I think, more into technical rather than physical, because he has a shadow helping him fighting. And then, for me, in terms of, I don't want the audience to see him as two. So my discussion with the director and Kyle, the action director, and all our friends, other choreographers, that we need to create a choreography that people need to see. This is not a two-person. This is one person, and then he's using his alter ego as a weapon. So that kind of technicality, for me, is more important. And then I really hope it conveys beautifully. Kano has so many great one-liners. You dickheads, you know what? Do you have any favorite Kano-isms this time around that were especially fun to... Look, I'll be totally honest with you. Once I say them, I kind of forget about them and then just move on. So I genuinely don't really remember what I even said. And I've not yet seen the film, and I'm very much looking forward to seeing it tomorrow. I get to watch it. But yeah, you know, Kano, he's kind of part insult comic, you know? He's part Rickles. He just comes out and just roasts people for no reason. But what I love about Kano is, you know, he's a mercenary and he's tough and stuff, but his references are kind of like pop culture, like Harry Potter and stuff. So he's watching Magic Mike. I guess he watches those movies. That's what I like about Kano is that there's, you know, he kind exists in this amazing world of Mortal Kombat, but he's also, yeah, I guess he also Netflix and chills as well, you know? We contain multitudes, Kano. Are you shitting me? You don't have any pals? Just incredibly handsome.