Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 2 days agoDo movie actors or actress keep the skills they learned? Like no one would screw with Keanu after seeing all the John Wick films? And if they did would they just be fucked from the start?message-squaremessage-square42fedilinkarrow-up169arrow-down113
arrow-up156arrow-down1message-squareDo movie actors or actress keep the skills they learned? Like no one would screw with Keanu after seeing all the John Wick films? And if they did would they just be fucked from the start?Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 2 days agomessage-square42fedilink
minus-squaretigeruppercut@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up42·2 days agoIIRC the actors in Matrix did ~6 months of kung fu training, and Keanu did a ton of shooting training for John wick. Of course all the movie stuff is choreographed but it doesn’t mean there’s nothing behind it in all cases.
minus-squareskulblaka@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up6·2 days agoThe Lord of the Rings cast also pretty famously trained with their weapons outside of just choreography At least Viggo did, I might just be misremembering John Rhys-Davies beating the ass off all the orc actors during choreography
IIRC the actors in Matrix did ~6 months of kung fu training, and Keanu did a ton of shooting training for John wick. Of course all the movie stuff is choreographed but it doesn’t mean there’s nothing behind it in all cases.
The Lord of the Rings cast also pretty famously trained with their weapons outside of just choreography
At least Viggo did, I might just be misremembering John Rhys-Davies beating the ass off all the orc actors during choreography