![]() ![]() But! I did do every single kick, and I'm proud of it. It was the most ridiculous process I've ever been through in my life. And it was every single day, seven days a week – I had straps on every single joint on my body. Eight hours is, if anything, a round down because sometimes it'd be 10. ![]() I really want that to land because it hurts. And he would just tag team, so the stunt trainers including my double would train for as many hours as they were available and could dedicate to me, and then Donnie, which was my other trainer's name, would tag team, he would continue training me literally until the place closed, and it was like that day in and day out.Īnd now when I look back on that journey, when I communicate it to people, sometimes when I say eight hours, people think I'm being figurative, or people think I'm exaggerating or – No, when I say eight hours, it's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. So, I flew my original trainer over from London, who stayed with me for about four months in South Africa in a separate Airbnb. We upped it to five, but then that got quite difficult, because there wasn't enough trainers to train me for five hours. We upped it to four, four hours wasn't going to be enough. I had an athletic background, but not a martial arts.Īnd two hours wasn't going to be enough. It was evident it wasn't going to be enough, because I didn't really have any sort of martial arts background. And then when I got to South Africa, we started with like two hours a day of training. I was already training with a friend of mine here who's a taekwondo black belt. And we started with two hours a day of training when I got to South Africa. Like, it was very much one of those jobs that if I was in for a penny, I was in for a pound. He was with me throughout every step of it, and I had various other trainers.Įarly in the process, I decided that it was going to be… I wanted to do everything. There is no CGI on my leg, and my stunt double was my trainer, and was very enthusiastically cheering me from the side. Yep! I did absolutely every single one of my own kicks in the show. I have to ask, are you a particularly strong kicker? Obviously, there's CGI and a stunt team for the show and all of that, but did you have to go through any training for that? It's really interesting to hear that, because obviously you are intimately familiar with the character, but I think anyone who has maybe a glancing interest in One Piece, what they know about Sanji is probably like… he's obsessed with women and he kicks hard. Even if that's the plating of a dish on its way to a table. He would risk everything to protect the things that he cares about. Even when it comes to someone like Zoro as a character, he may not speak his careness into truth, but he doesn't not care. Caring, I think, is more of… there is a genuine care that goes beyond his show of it. And that is, again, whether it be things or people. It's interesting that I put that one last, because if I get to define him in one word, my one word for him would be that he cares… deeply. He romanticizes what he does, he romanticizes the world.Īnd he's fierce because he protects both his care and his romanticizing with what is a very adamant ability to protect him and others.Īnd caring, I think that's my main word. He romanticizes not just other people, but he romanticizes things. What are the three words that most define Sanji and why? You're playing Sanji, one of the main Straw Hat crew members. And if it's not, at the very least everybody was acting pure of heart. So, I kind of like that.Īnd I remember one of the directors we worked with saying to us very early in the process, "The only way we can get it wrong is by trying our hardest to get it right." As in, just everybody doing their job to their best of their ability equates to hopefully what is going to be a good job. In terms of the controversialness of it being a manga live-action and stuff like that, I kind of like that? I don't see that as a bad thing, because I think a lot of the things that we hold as big turning points in our opinions of things were controversial to start. ![]()
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