It's so much fun playing Ling, but I have this fear that people are going to run away from me in terror on the streets. They think I'm going to bite their heads off or something.
From Lucy Liu
You respect all of these people that you know in the business as actors. And they sort of turn around and say, we really like your work. It's a nice acknowledgment.
Working on the Samurai sword is very different because your body position has to be very still. It's a much quieter was of fighting.
Women like to watch women fight because it makes them feel sort of empowered physically and mentally. They feel kind of jazzed and excited by it.
When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt.
They were concerned about the racial issue. They thought it was not a safe issue to go Asian, unfortunately.
Since we didn't use guns, we wanted to make sure we could earn the ability to win the audience over by making it believable. A lot of what you do when you work out in that mode is use your mental energy.
People use location as a language in films, and Quentin uses action as a language in his films. There's really not a lot of violence. It's more of an emotional beat than it is a physical beat.
Once you embody the language, the character comes really naturally, especially when you put the costume on.
Nobody really tells me what's going on, and I find out via the trades myself.
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