![]() ![]() It’s drama,” he continued.Īll of Taslim’s fight scenes are incredibly dramatic then. “When you see a good fight scene, it's never a fight scene. What is the purpose of this fight? Does the character think he's going to win, or does he already know he will die? Or is he just toying with his opponent who underestimates him? Something is motivating those characters. There are no lines, but it's not just a fight. “Let’s say a fight is four minutes,” Taslim explained. “That's hard. Taslim put as much work into his character development as he did into physically training for fight scenes, in large part because he never viewed them as two different aspects of the character, no matter how daunting. McQuoid was especially blown away by Taslim’s performance. “Joe manifesting Sub-Zero is a pretty exciting thing to see,” the director said. Taslim’s acknowledgment of the depth of Sub-Zero’s history plus his connection to the fans impressed the entire team. When you play an assassin who gets paid to kill other people, there's another layer of consciousness there asking, ‘Is this the life that I chose? Or did somebody choose it for me?’ That kind of dilemma is very interesting to me." It's inspired me so much,” Taslim said. “I dug a lot into before I jumped into production. “Out of the 11 Mortal Kombat games so far, I’ve got to say, I like the classic game. His favorite iteration of the game may surprise you, though. He told us he had a PlayStation 4 in his trailer and would often play the Mortal Kombat 11 game with his fellow cast members. ![]() "He's very patient, and even though he's almost 60, he moves like a real ninja,” Taslim gushed. When I found out who he was going to play, I watched the movie again! He's kind of like my idol,” Taslim said. “In 2003, I saw The Last Samurai when I was just a boy from South Sumatra. If you had told Taslim that not only would he star in a live-action movie about one of his favorite video games, but that he would play opposite one of his real-life heroes, Hiroyuki Sanada (shown just above), who portrays Hanzo Hasashi/Scorpion in the film, he wouldn’t have believed you. “When my agent called me about the offer, I asked my son, ‘Which character do you think fits me the best?’ He said ‘Sub-Zero,’” Taslim recalled. “I told my agent not to lose this job.” ![]() (Ironically, his son was only 10 at the time and therefore not old enough to play the 18-plus-rated game). The first actor cast in the film, Taslim credits his son with helping him make the decision. “He was born to play Sub-Zero,” producer Todd Garner told us. He's won multiple Judo competitions across Asia, but it’s his work in the Indonesian action film The Raid: Redemption with fellow actor and Indonesian martial artist Iko Uwais ( Wu Assassins, The Night Comes for Us) that put him on the map. “It’s so crazy that I'm playing the character that I played when I was a kid,” Taslim said. “It's a dream come true.”īorn and raised in Palembang, South Sumatra, Taslim studied the Indonesian martial art silat, as well as wushu and tae kwon do. When SYFY WIRE visited the set of the upcoming Mortal Kombat movie, it was clear that of all of the actors cast in Simon McQuoid's updated film adaptation, actor and martial artist Joe Taslim ( The Raid: Redemption, Warrior, The Night Comes for Us) - who plays cryomancer Sub-Zero - was one of the biggest fans of the franchise. ![]()
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