Jason Statham Doesn’t Want His Characters to Get Punched

Inside a sacred aNnals of Stathamology In billions of dollars in the dollar, mortar karate, karate, from Jasson Statham-Eddi C. Fernandez is the first Hollywood expert. The veteran performance profession/martial artist/actor/actor designer extends to about 300 films, including Al -Jawrasi worldand Captain America: Winter Soldierand There is no country for the elderly menand Batman beginsEven the best Oscar winner of 2004 Shatter. Over the past four decades, it has been at the recipient of Venice explosions, hand grenades, and a head of Crème de la crème of excitement: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dwayne Johnson, Silthter Stallone, Tom Cruise, and Will Smith.

But since 2006, Fernandez has built a fame quietly as a prominent anthropomorphic chaos on the chaos of the UV -UV in seven films: as a leader in crankand Krank: High voltage2010 Consumersand MechanicAnd Fast and angry gifts: Hobbes and ShuDancing was designed in the last movie Priteal Tough Guy, Beekeepers (2024) and WorkerIn theaters now.

Fernandez was killed by Statham on the screen several times, and he has difficulty keeping all the details directly. in David Air– WorkerStatham depicts a kind of blue collar: a former former soldier who works as individuals in construction began in a splash of good killing and unjustified slip when the daughter of the employer is kidnapped as part of a human displacement. We see drug dealers, external bicycle drivers, and Russian mob singles surrender to the superior Action Hero-Fernandez method among them, in part of it as a bully who gets his statham in the city center employee in the city center. This is the most wandering of the self when you think that Fernandez has also designed exciting and fighting: excitement sequence, planning each rhythm with a team using Previsualization, increasing the viewer’s improvement with Statham and Ayer in Preprduction, and settling allocations before Cameras rolled.

Speaking by enlargement, Fernandez has collapsed about the eagle of nuts and the bolts of Jason Statham’s fighting scene – in detail, in particular, how the star “punching” does not want.

Was there a development in the way I saw Statham approaching work over the years?
Initially, the studio was not allowed with certain things. They did not want him to be hurt. But then Tom Cruise comes and wants to do all his exciting works. He is the man of money. He produced a lot of his own films, so no one was to say no. Then I got Keanu Reeves. He is very trained! It is five in the morning, and he is training with these fighters.

So we were sneaking into these small battles with him and the producers were saying, “I did that?!” Yes, he did that, and now they admired that he did all these things. Not only that, the directors were impressed. Now, they can shoot him without hiding his face. And when it comes to double the trick, they can now see Jason to fight the entirety without discounts. So far they can get longer and make their days and move to the next scene. Jason himself is very good, a sportsman. With battles, it helps dance to them. We are training, studying them. By the time when we are in place, he knows every step, so there is no hiccup.

When it comes to exciting work and battles, I said Jason knows exactly what he wants. What is looking for? What are the components of the good battle of Jason Statham?
It starts from the text program: He says at that moment in the movie, and it collides with the amount of x of people. Along this story line, it was already in garbage dumps; Now it needs to shine.

Something is that he does not want to get the punch. Jason told this movie, “Hey, you have to take great success. The audience wants to see you taking great success.”

“Well,” Edd. ” So there are some visits that he took in this movie.

Otherwise, for Lahison, we define with a fighting team. We discover the area where we will be. Is it outside, inside, is he in a pub? Now we reach things to use, where it will fall and where will the next person fall. After that, as soon as we get a fighting scene together, we show it to Jason and David, our manager.

They look at her, then Jason throws, “Hey, opposite this, can I go here and then throw this man and then end up here so that I can get out easier?”

I am like, Hell yes!

We restore combat chores, and we shoot Previs Again, then show it and then David. Once we multiply everyone by everyone, this is what we will do. We train it, train it, and train it. Jason loves to come and learn every rhythm, so when he is in his place, no one is waiting for him because he knows everything. This is really cool. Many actors do not do it; They will just try to break it. It is not, it will go as much as we can go.

I mean, after he takes a Giant sharkThere is almost nothing that he cannot tolerate. But you said something interesting to me, which is that he did not want to get injured, and you had to be like, “You need to take some punches to look realistic.”
Look at all his films: There are many people who fight, and once while, someone will throw a punch. I said, “I know you got a beautiful face, but we need to see a little blood here, slightly cut here.”

Is it obligatory to win all the battles?
namely [in A Working Man]And we put it in a position in which it is expelled. Finally, we say, “Hey, you are outside.” So, yes, gets some strikes. Then his personality wakes up in a car like, “What has just happened?” He evaluates his whereabouts and knows that he must do something; Otherwise, it is Gunner. This is where Jason’s ideas and ideas begin to enter, such as “Boom, we will use this, what will he do? How will we get out of these handcuffs?”

I made dances on Beekeepers and Worker. In both of these two films, about 85 percent of the road, there is a climatic battle between Jason and the single character in the movie, which is a serious threat to him. Is this according to the design? The character’s name is the Dutch in this movie.
All I know is when I saw the Dutchman, I was like, “Oh my God, he is a big man. How will we get it?” I started thinking about how to bring a tree down: start getting rid of. This is exactly how we broke that battle. Little by little, we had to reach his level when he was on his knees and finally-and farewell. But it was much to put it in a movie where we were destroyed on time. We had to X a lot of these procedures. It has reached the ground more and more, you need to finish it at a real speed.

Jason knows his fans. I feel almost that Jason Statham’s fans like, “we don’t want to see our man being beaten.” So when you come to plan the movement, do you consider it?
naturally. We say, “Well, if we hit him too early, he will have to wear this throughout the show.

We do body strokes, and a lot of body blows. So you know that he takes some punches and some kicks, dumping a wall or like that. All of this is internal, you never see it in the face.

Vulture succeeded in arranging it He kills the highest in all his films. And a set of things you are in and design is there. I wanted to run across two of this killing to see if you are in the scene. In No. 7, in crankJason penetrates the man’s hand, who carries a pistol, then uses a man’s hand to make him shoot himself. Is this you?
no. At that time, I was one of the fighters. I have played followers. But it is very funny because the hand was cut, then there was the neck. I mean, head. You are like, What kind of movie do we do? But to see all this, for me, I only love it and it is fun and is implemented. It is a little cheese, but it is very cool.

in Krank 2: High voltageJason crushes the testicles of the man, then rejoices a needle in his neck. Was this you?
No, but I was there. It was a closed group. Sometimes when there is nudity, it is better to have fewer people who prepare people to perform their scenes. We all try to get away and let them feel comfortable. This is a very difficult thing, such a scene. Although we think, Oh, that was funnyIt is difficult to shoot. It takes many people, a lot of energy, and a lot of feelings.

in MechanicJason Harbuns is a man, his neck settle, and uses it as a human shield. You?
I barely remember it. I played one of the herbs coming out of the plane. I forgot what I do. I was involved in helping some [stunt] Coordination, so I was playing a role, but I was also responsible for employing the right people and informing them that this is our next gag and everything else. I remember that Jason was jumping from the bridge. I was involved in all of that and forgot what I was doing there. But people send me pictures: Oh, yes, I played that character. I think I was shot.

He died in his hands several times, becoming blocker after a certain point. In the past two films with him, there were times when Jason said, “This is very much for me. What you suggest is unlimited to me?” Or: “Let’s represent matters, I am.”
Oh, he wanted to raise things all the time. And if he said, Nah, I don’t want to do thatThere is always a good reason. Perhaps it was not logical at that moment, because the text program is reviewed several times by the time when you start shooting it. Then it is rewritten when you start filming because now we realize, We must understand the reason for this. Jason, as a good actor himself, will say, “Well, why do I do that and then go to do so? This is meaningless.”

So, David spoke and defended it and said: “You know what? Get it. We will scratch that, you are doing this instead.”

He thinks like the dance designer himself.
Yes, of course. I mean, it’s Liberon. When he starts, when he gets a group, he is that man. He needs to know what this man will do throughout the movie.

Jason films are filled with interesting and unexpected elements to strike or kill people. I wondered if you had absolutely stumbled in this process and you were like, “hey, what about using this?” Perhaps if you can take me through one of these situations.
There are battles we did Beekeepers And these weapons that were secreted. He says, “Well, since I took this gun, why don’t I offer it to shave this man like this?”

After that, David was going, “I love it.”

We look at, “hey, effects, you will have this mold and this and that,” and suddenly they are working hard to get this artificial piece.

I mean, things like that happens all the time. “Hey, there is a hanging chain; I will comment a man.” The mutation, bring in Riggers, put a harness on this man. We will attend it. Instead of a real chain, place a fake chain on it.

They are just many things that happen in the group, as I said. Once you already get there, more ideas come. Then he said some ideas, “Well, I can’t do it if there is.” So what will we do? “Well, this is a heavy piece of machines, we cannot move them. Well, so we now have to redesign everything and get rid of certain things, but let’s add this.”

So you have to think a lot on your feet. As David says, bring all your tools to appoint you because you never know what will ask you; It is better to be ready for that.