The Art of Action - Vidyut Jammwal - Episode 20

[Music] how are you good to see you once again thank you yes my brother thanks for being on my show this time i i did it for you now you do for me you return the favor no it's not a favor i'm so happy that i'm a part of the people that you've been speaking to and they're all legendary beings so i'm so happy you asked me over here i'm glad i'm here you absolutely have to be here my friend because you are on fire talk about action star you are doing some crazy stuff i've been watching what you've been doing since commando absolutely phenomenal stuff i love to see a physical guy like yourself putting it all out on the line you know doing many of your own stunts risking life and limb to entertain our audience so you've got to be on the art of action absolutely so happy to be here because i've been watching your conversations with other actors and there's a commonality between all of them they love the risk and they all know about the calculated risk that was the common thing that i figured out of all of them risk-taking abilities are high i love these people what i'd love for you to let us in on and i asked all my guests this and i want to know as well if we could start with your martial arts background just briefly but i believe does your is your mother a martial artist my mother initiated me into the martial arts and i was very young i started at the age of three so i really didn't go and train i was in a place where training happened so for me to pick up a weapon whether it was a sword or a staff it was not something that people would stop me from and i grew up with weapons and i played with them so for me there was no fear and i do the ancient indian martial art called calorie fight it is the mother of all martial arts um ancient with documentation and we have history about it it came from lord shiva the guy who lived on the kailasha mountain and from him it went to the parshuram bodhidharma and now to me so quite quite happy to be taking the responsibility of this martial art great stuff so the martial art that you do um can you give us an idea of of what it's like i mean what's the closest thing that you could compare it to in terms of is it like mutai or is it like karate or in your opinion well very different you know you can't compare it to anything because this is the seed of all the forms of human abilities i'm not talking about the marshall skill only so it's like a seed that's sewn into the ground and it blossoms and it blossoms then it gives leaves and then the fruits the martial arts that you talk about uh all the martial arts apart from culturally bite have come out of culinary part right they have made it into different categories of arts one of the category is karate kung fu jiu jitsu they all have come out of this seed they all have similarities yet they are so different because everybody who practiced it or took it further with different people they had great abilities in a certain aspect so the seed is calorie pipe and we have similarity we have two hands we've got two legs this is what we use yeah you are created equal all the martial arts are the same they come from one source you have to fight only with the limbs that you have and we all have the same limbs so we all do the same form so it's not like it's you know you've got does it have wrestling in it does it have kicking and things like that or it's it it kind of encompasses fighting in general curry pirate is divided in the very elementary stage into four parts yeah where you basically use your physical skills that is your hands that's your legs then you learn onto a wooden weapon so that it's not only you who's the weapon when you have another weapon you become one with it then you graduate into weapons which are made up of materials one of the aspects is healing to learn all these things and to master all of it together makes you a calorie fight exponent or an extreme martial artist we know only we don't only really work on the skeletal system or the muscular system we work on the lymphatic system the visceral system uh the neuromuscular system the respiratory system so when all these seven systems are in sync you become a calorie pipe exponent and that involves a lot of healing and do you do much meditation and yoga and stuff like that as well is that part of it see yoga and calorie paid are very interrelated yoga is like the alphabet and calorie paid is the movement is the word every form that we do in yoga is like an alphabet but when you imbibe it or mix it with curry pie it becomes the word it becomes fluid it's called flow yoga which is also called calorie pipe okay i'm i'm slowly getting it i'm slowly getting it back to your question you're always in meditation because when you're flowing you're aware of your fluidity so you're always in meditation then there is an aspect of meditation where you just sit down and just enjoy everything around you all the achievements that you've done during the day or in the last few months or the weeks you sit and rejoice in them that is another meditation that we should do and that i do a lot i really i am very grateful to everything that has happened to me or is happening to me i make sure in my meditation i thank everything that's my connection with me i need to do more meditation at the moment i currently do none so i should uh probably think about it monk man my english monk i love him he's smart he's sensible he's careful he's he's ferocious and that's what you are man kind and gentle too that's a real martial artist thanks vidya thank you did you always want to get into the movies no uh movies like i never thought about movies as a movie actor or a stuntman i did martial arts since a young age and the only thing i wanted to do was whenever i met somebody in india and i used to tell them that i do this martial art called calorie fight they used to look at me and wonder what is this he's talking about so for me at a very young age the ambition became that every time i spoke to somebody they should know about what i'm talking about that is the mother of all martial arts they used to ask me oh is it karate is it kung fu and i used to tell them karate kung fu has come out of cunnery park so my ambition became to make sure everybody knows about color repair i traveled doing a lot of shows in a very young age all over the world it wasn't enough then i realized that action is a great genre in india bollywood the hindi film industry loves action just like the rest of the world and i thought why not use my skills here and make the whole world know about calorie bite so here i am and that's my journey i think i'm destined to be in the film industry and make people aware of what i do you're spreading the word of calorie pie i don't even know if i could save properly you said it right yeah calorie pie you see now i didn't know about it and now i'm learning and so we are spreading the word gallery means the battle field or the battleground and quiet means the place where you practice for the battleground then we have colorey chikitsa kaleri means the battleground and chikitsa means the treatment for the battleground so if you know how to kill you need to know how to heal i'm a healer yeah and i've been really blessed that i've healed people and i enjoy healing wonderful good stuff um my next question is a very simple question with probably a difficult answer how the hell do you stay in that sort of shape i mean i'm jealous of your physique mate i've got to tell you like you've got arms like van damme for me van damme always had the best arms better than stallone better than arnold better than everyone you've got arms like van damme how the hell do you stay in shape like that i trained very hard scott you know what i'm saying yeah it's the best thing for me you know i was chatting with my sister and you she tells me so as you know i'm in england and she's like you should really rest because we you really work very hard and i told her but when i work hard what you think is working hard is where i'm resting i'm at peace i'm enjoying being in that moment i'm loving my body being used so for me i just love doing this and i think yeah that's what makes me happy you got a strict diet though do you stay off the carbs no i i just don't follow any diet but when i was building myself up for commando 2 i was very careful uh because i wanted to be very sculpted and i wanted to be shredded at the same time i was very careful but like my last movie kuda office and they didn't want me to really be beefy so i'm enjoying this phase of not being on diet i eat and i work out like a maniac i'm a vegetarian okay so just train hard yeah and there you go if you train as hard as video you will look like video but it's not easy can you see this yeah just talk us through this so um i was watching my people doing push-ups and um i just thought that we should give them a better opportunity to do something more difficult they should like enhance their skills so i when i was very young we were trained on coconuts they used to place four coconuts on the floor and two hands on the coconut behind coconut so i started very young with that and bottle seemed easy is that something that you do in calorie pie on the bottles or is that just something that you thought i'll give this a go no so you keep enhancing your ability to balance on things first in calorie part you learn the balance from within and then you learn to balance yourself on others so we had different instruments to balance ourselves on like the coconut i told you we had different places where we were supposed to balance now the way they have the balls in the gym we have to be on one foot on one coconut the other one the other so it's very traditional so i just moved it onto the bottles they looked something like something that everybody could get i've also seen you doing the crawls where you keep your body very low to the ground and you your leg comes up to the side and um that is a lot harder than it looks actually it's not hard it's got for somebody like you and i because if we think about it a few times in our head and we move like that we will get the energy so for people who who really haven't ever tried something like that to move could be a problem but the way like for example we were chatting about the other uh the other day that when i watch your kicks and i have to tell you her this i'm in awe with the precision with which you explain your kicks every movement that's a real master similarly for us these movements a few times in the head and then on the floor yeah sometimes you just got to figure out how to do it and then you can do it but you need to you've got to figure it out first but no it's just it is it looks a lot it is harder than it looks you look at anything oh yeah well he's just crawling close to the ground it's it's a lot harder than that this so this stick work that's coming directly from kalaripu right no so it's not the initial formation of the stick movement this is a very small section where you learn how to exchange the batten from one hand to another the start from the back from one hand to another this is one of the elementary positions i have just given it a little bit of a stance so what you do is you stand still and learn how to move learn how to move how to throw catch how to throw catch so this is one of the elementary ones and i shot it in my phone and i liked it yeah it looks really cool so when did you get the idea i'm going to try and get into the film business um i know you discussed you wanted to spread the word of of your martial art um and how long after making the decision i'm going to get into the movies how long did it take and what was your journey if you could encapsulate that i know that you had a few parts as like a henchman or a bad guy uh of my life you know it so much i learned whilst i was playing those imperceptible roles i loved it man so much i learned so um i just loved doing martial arts i just loved using my body and um i i started working in a modeling agency where i was supposed to just um look at these uh pictures of models and give it to another guy and that's how i started my journey and uh i used to see a lot of guys getting work and i was like why don't i put my pictures this is the true story and i had a portfolio before i joined in because my mom like any other mom thought i'm so good looking i should make movies and i should be a part of modeling and i have thought so too because this is the time i decided i should be in movies that's where i need my skill to be shown i was it was a bit late for me i was i think 21 when i started working but i was very good i had forgotten the part where i was working to be a model i started working so well that anybody i went to they were like you're so good you're so good so that i started learning how to do production at that young age i started producing ads not as a producer but as a production assistant and started distributing my own pictures and started getting work and then i got very lucky modeling really did well for me i started doing a lot of fashion shows i took part in a fashion event and that's how my journey changed and modeling happened i did more than 1 000 shows in india uh in my first year and uh yep then modeling kept happening and then i gave us dvd of mine which had made an action seal uh reel off very small one yeah i gave it to a friend of mine who was a dop and he went to new york to meet this actor and while he was having a conversation i told him to show it to him his name is ntr junior or south superstar action superstar and he said i want him as the bad guy um and that was the first step i played one of the bad guys and in his next movie i played the better bad guy like in hierarchy and then things just turned because everybody wanted me for one or two kicks in the movie and i was like yeah i want to kick the sh everybody see how this is how i fall i used to love falling and showing it to people that oh i'm so good and then i realized in india it's very difficult to play the bad guy because the good guy doesn't let you hit hit him if the battle is good they'll make sure they'll hit you 15 more times and they'll make sure that so it was different and i realized that oh my kicks are being edited everything is being edited but it was terrible is there a risk of getting pigeonholed as the bad guy and not being able to get away from that or is that not not also a part of the fear but the bigger fear is first it's so difficult that you shoot everything and you're not in the movie you can be seen a bit but it taught me so much i learned so much about people because i realized that everybody who's being hit might be more talented than the person who is hitting you so you really have to understand that everybody who's a stunt man everybody who's getting beaten up by you is much more superior than you in a lot of things like that the roles will be better their acrobatic skills could be better so you have to respect everybody who's on the set and uh yes then i got another bad movie where i played this bad guy and that movie did very well and my producer saw me on the set without me in my clothes and i was doing an action piece he came to me and he said i'm gonna make a movie with you and you will be the hero that's what they call the leading man in the country so like wow and i thought he's just he's just saying it for the heck of it and that's when commando one started uh the writing process started and god so kind god is first kind [Music] so you were aware that this was your big shot this was a chance to be the hero in a pretty decently budgeted movie right yep there's a chance for you to show to your country and to the world what you can do as an action star there's a lot of pressure there right but you know scott when you're in the process of building a career up that that ambition that you've come with you don't even remember it because you're so busy trying to get work and then it doesn't really matter what kind of a role are you getting i went through that phase where like i said i had played such small roles where i was a bad guy's bad guy and um i just i just wanted to be very good like everybody else who tries really hard but um i just believe that i just believe that if you have talent any kind of talent if you have a fire burning within you if you really have a fire burning within you it's impossible to ignore maybe not right now maybe not tomorrow but it is impossible fijia can you talk us through this fight sequence from commando one please oh i'm so glad you're making me do this and then the hero walks with the swag this was the first time i saw you in this i was like what who's this guy he's got some kicks he's got but it's it's the gymnastics as well that really stood you apart all the flips so you know so inspired by jackie chan that you just can't deny the fact that a lot of things you do everything you do actually he's done everything that is possible on screen yeah so like taking the shirt off was one of my favorite things that jackie chan used to do i remember i used to walk in with my friends to my college and take the jacket off like that so i used to love all that i've been the worst is they didn't clean the spring board up man look at that so i was looking at it and i could see that you were not on the floor not on the floor yeah but at the end of the day you still front somersaulting over a moving car and and scott the thing was not only the moving car i have practiced uh doing a summerslam before but i was in between these two buses and i could not see the car come so for me it was you have to run and whether the car comes or it's you you're like yeah because it's not saying it and i have no idea how far the car will be from the springboard or so the fear of banging into it or banging my knees into it was quite a lot but we did it and i'm so happy now when i do stunts and i'm not a stunt man i don't do all of my own stunts i do all my own fights and i always want it to be me unless i've got an injury or something like that but i do the odd little thing like something like what you've done you know for me a stunt is smashing through a window getting hit by a car being on fire things like that stuff stuff like that some sorting over that car it's a physical feat which you and i you know that that's what we like to do and that's what we're known for but when you get to do something like that and you can't see the car and you get a bit nervous but i always enjoy that moment when you're about to do something that could potentially end up with you getting hurt but you have accepted that fact and you're at peace with that fact and you're about to do it and whatever happens is going to happen and so be it but you're a piece of it and i love that feeling it's scary as well but i kind of enjoy that zoning in i'm ready i'm gonna do i'm gonna go it's a good feeling right i love it but you know scott that feeling cannot be replaced with anything that is only when you look back and say oh my god i just did it but with me scott you know i talk to a lot of my friends with me i have a lot of fear before i do an action sequence i am full of fear and that's my favorite part when i have fear besides me i know i will i will have to fight this fear it's every time every time i do a stun squat it's like when i was growing up i had always heard what people say be positive don't think negative if you think positive we've heard this but then i really started dissecting this positive and negative in my head and i really enjoy it when there's fear besides me i love fear and every time i do a stunt i think of all the so-called negative things that can happen like for example where the car is coming and i'm in between these buses running i can't see the car coming so i thought about all the bad things that can happen that is one i miss the springboard i just don't use it well i hit the car hang into the car the second is i don't take a leap high enough it should be higher i think that oh my god if i don't take a leap high enough i'm gonna bang into it again then do i take a leap a bit further from the car so for that i hope i just take it further and this is all visualization going in my head and then i land and i just just just trip and then i say oh my god all this can happen to me and by then the camera is already ready to roll then i then think of all the things i'm like if this happens i'm gonna roll on my shoulder and just do a shoulder roll and get out if i bang into the car i might use my hands i think of all of it and then the action happens and by then i have left fear besides me because i know everything that can go wrong and then i properly land and i say bye to my fear and i'm like dude thank you and then the next time i do something else fear is besides me and i love it well yeah it's important to think of the things that can go wrong so that you're aware of them and uh hopefully you've navigated away around the danger so that's smart to do but also it gets to a point where you just you just got to do it and let your training and belief in yourself because you know how many times have you done a front somersault back some sort all these things you know what needs to be done you just need to zone in concentrate and do it i had a similar thing on accident man where i have to jump up and kick the guy off the bike i'd seen jack chan do it in meals on wheels and i wanted to do it and then they brought the bike and the handlebars were really high and it was the end of a fight scene that we'd done the whole night and i was tired and everyone's going all the handlebars a bit high and you sure you're gonna be okay with this the sun's coming up we haven't got a lot of time i don't know if you should do this scott and at the end of the day i was just like no just shut up everyone get away i'm doing it and we zoned in and we did it and it was fine but uh it's interesting also wanted to do that score like you know you're one of the few people who's done it because it's not an easy one to do to start with but that's a thing that you i would have loved to do it i just haven't been able to do it but i promise you i would love to do it again what kicking someone off the bike yes i've not done it but i would love to repeat it after you've also done it attractions on it like i'm i have to do it i also want to do it yeah it was it was okay worry was that i would land on the bike that was the worry yeah because you know it's not something we could practice you just well it was a low budget films like well let's just do it but they were worried i would land on the bike and my hand would go in the wheel and all the rest of it but it was fine those thoughts are amazing they take your brain to a place where you can never imagine to go whilst you're training you don't think about all these things but the moment the camera starts talking i love it it's almost like bollywood action films are almost like hong kong movies were in the 90s i i think jackie chan is clearly an inspiration for you jackie chan is an inspiration for every martial artist martial artist alive it's impossible that somebody who does martial arts or loves action has is not an off jackie chan it's impossible now how did you train for this video well this is crazy man so this was not the first take i had scraped my back completely i had i hit my hip a few times the door has started becoming too wobbly uh the only thing this was my first action movie as a leading man and i just wanted to do it so the only thing i knew is that i don't have to slam my head onto that the top of the door yeah as long as your head was in you were good i was fine i thought i'd take the pain on my butt i don't care so much about this and there had to be a moment where i had to squeeze myself as much as i could and i tried the first six to seven times i smashed my hips so hard and so hard and then you practice with something the same shape or did you just try it with the door no no i practiced it for about a month i the typical i started with a circle then i started getting it small then we started getting we then after a while we got a wooden door then we got the metallic dough with the embellishment on it yeah what because if it's a light dough it would just break out and open so we had to have the metal in it and i smacked myself so many times but the three times i got it i was so happy with it and the next day i had like i had wounds all over my body and i did not i just didn't care about it because i wanted to do it that's the tight space isn't it yep yeah it's a wagon or good jumping back kick we shot this whole action piece caught in two days you know how we make movies you don't get a lot of time you're exhausted you've got people who are giving retakes and yeah two days of rehearsal and two days of action yeah to be honest in a way i almost like to just have one fight sequence be done in two days or three because day three you're aching so bad it's best to get it done um it's great stuff what you guys are doing over there it's really enjoyable in india is really like i'm happy what we come out from a country i'm really proud when i meet action or stuntmen or anywhere in the world i'm i feel very proud scott when they tell me that oh you know we've been enjoying hindi movies we've been enjoying indian movies because the standard has really gone up it's right at my street this is what we want to see these are the type of movies i i want to make to be honest i mean it's different in the in the west now it's all the superheroes and everything but you know i grew up in the age of watching jackie chan and uh you know van damme and all those guys and this is in a similar vein that's a nice slick move there with the knife the build nice disarm yeah so it's important to have a good stunt team around you isn't it guys that can make you look good as well you know the amazing thing is god if you just go back so most of the stunts i've done with one friend of mine we both are very good friends and i'll start with so you know how you have your best friends you work with you trust but mike he's my friend yes you gotta trust the man you're doing it with so i really trust him this guy here yes and we had he had to climb on a table for me to get to that height that's how the action director wanted it and he told me you can't do it so this friend of my mind and i spoke for a second i said sunil we have to do it dude we have to just because we have to and we just did this in one take and it was quite cool so if you watch uh the action pieces you're talking about the stunt team yeah i have my this friend in most of the difficult pieces because i trust him implicitly yeah [Music] i imagine you've got a safety wire but still it's so you know scott this is uh so i was very inspired by the firefighters and i had watched one of the fire fighting race um and they have like an annual race where you have to climb up the building yeah basically just save people from a burning building um i watched it and i rehearsed it in bombay when i was there this be shot in thailand so the day we reached the chute the ladder was supposed to be about five to seven kilos for me to do it so that i could carry it move it quickly hang it on the wall climb quickly hang on the wall and climb the third floor so when we reached the day of the shoot the ladder was 21 kilos it was hardcore metal i couldn't even place it like that for me it was a lot of effort and then then while you place it you hook it up in one go that that's what the idea was run pick it up pick it up climb it up fine hook it up right and i go there and i'm like this is early in the morning and we have a whole day to shoot and i just kind of lift the laptop because the moment i lift it from here it goes like that and um oh my god so there was one tape where i had to like push it push it push it that's why you don't see the way i wanted it it's not that way it could have been much cleaner and faster but finally pretty clean that's pretty plain and fast but i'm really impressed but yeah thank you but if you see the firefighters they are supposed to do it in a few seconds and that's what i wanted to achieve oh okay have a safety wire on just in case you fell off yeah yeah um but for me that's what's impressive about it is you there's no hesitation getting onto ladder and going up it's not like oh and now i'm on it and i'll go quicker you're swinging out and you're just you're going for it i was impressed mate really good stuff thank you i love this one too this whole opening sequence is is really cool um in thailand you say this is thailand yeah i like the way the blood goes on the camera there that's crazy the way you've closed lined him off the off the balcony so we didn't have too much time scott as you know every time the same story and we were running late we did the ladder sequence the first day the second day we were supposed to do this so i remember the the blood did come on the camera and i was like dude we've got it so the director tells me videos we don't have too much time we really got this we moved ahead this is the real blood of the mouth and since yeah yeah well i love it i like it when the blood hits the lens i always think it was an accurate this one i love a bit of violence me you know you know me video come on i love the violence and that's a very slick just getting up there and and sliding along your bum straight into the hole there you go i love doing things which seem impossible like my favorite is i go through small things and that's one of my favorite things i enjoy taking my body into smaller holes yeah very athletic it's a pleasure to watch you move i love that as well so i had two days for this or oh for three three days three days yeah i mean there's a lot going on there's a lot of set up lots of food yeah cool man but your scotty you have to give it to all these stunt guys man they make us look everything that we are yeah they're unbelievable they're so hard working they're so diligent they're all masters of their own craft yeah can't do it without those guys stunt guys if not more of your trailer yes um stun guys i mean you know let's give them an oscar please it's about time son guys please get an oscar and scott atkin please become the james bond mesh money penny yeah that's a cool call open in sequence any injuries for you in any of these movies yes we were running out of time and there's a chase sequence in commando 2 and we were in the middle of a crowded street a set and come on let's do it you know our movies are small budgeted but they expect the best which we have to give and i remember come on come on and i was in a rush too because everything is riding on me how quickly i do it and we have seven eight more sequences i do a front some sort and suddenly somebody had placed a small a small bag and i've twisted my foot while it's landing and like my god this can't happen right now dude and then this is the beginning of a big action sequence and you've already sprayed your ankle and that's just to with the somersault and we go we ice it and i'm like we can do it we can do it i finished the whole thing and throughout the shoot i was praying to god and i don't do that so often to ask him for something he's given me so much i was like please do not let it break and it didn't break but there was so much pain there's a little a little bit of swelling but yeah every time you get injured every time as an actor as a martial artist i'm talking about you i jackie chan checkly i can assure you that we don't stop because the body just doesn't want to stop and you'll know i can't stop either because you don't you've only got the amount of money you've got to make the movie and you know if people think you've got enough money to keep going back like all right tom cruise breaks his ankle they shut down production he's got quite a bit of money he heals up he comes back but still he was running on a bro on a barely healed broken foot so respect him for that but for us the train has left the station it doesn't stop moving the film is happening it's now or never right we've got to do it with me i think that i don't know if i had that kind of money for my movies i would still finish the shot because i don't want to come back later and do this the healing will take so much time the shot is in my head this is what i feel right now i would just still finish it and do you ever get apprehensive before action sequences because i know i do and i'm interested to see what your mindset is but for me there's so much expectation from the producers from the director from my fans that it be as good as i've done it in the past do i actually get quite apprehensive about the whole thing to start it because i i know that it's going to be terribly hard work i know what i'm about to put myself through and it's not particularly enjoyable i wondered how you felt about it now in your case scott the last time like i told you andy the action director and i was chatting about it that you're somebody who's been doing the best action since the time you started you haven't like really gone down with your skills your agility you haven't every time you come on screen you are just doing better than what you have this is what andy told me about you and he said he doesn't stop he's injured he just doesn't stop he doesn't give himself recovery time in my case in context to this scott i'm inspired by you in this aspect i just can't after i got to know this about you when andy told me i was like this is how i am i yes there is a lot of apprehension about a lot of things but that doesn't stop me i just keep going on but like i said my best friend is fear i love it i love fear around me and i love beating fear every time i love looking back at myself and saying oh my god i did it again i love it [Music] so beyond the set it was just decided suddenly that we had to have a indian traditional style calorie pipe move and we shot this in about 30 minutes scott is it a particular form that uh is in existence or is it bits and pieces that you've put together and made up every movement is a part of calorie pipe this is the elephant's ears and you kick and then you go into the pose this is the elephant salutation you put the soil on your head to say you're ready every time you tap yourself is how you basically measure it the end of it is where you basically touch your shoulders and knees i wish i had shot this much better i like when i look back this is this i will do a much better part in any other movie i just wish we had more time we had but i love this yeah it's cool man it reminds me of um what tony jar does in in some ways when i look at you doing something like that i see resemblance in i know thailand's not far from from india really so so thailand and india we have a lot of in common if you go back to the history we were not different countries all together and if you go to thailand and you nee read about hanuman buri all the movements are inspired by lord hanuman he's the monkey god in india and all the names are named after the monkey god after the elephant god that is the indian god that we worship lord ganesha so this the movement has come from lord shiva and has formed everywhere but like i said we have the same weapon all of us how we use it yes yes sir yeah is incredible he's inspired so many people he made a local a national martial art become so famous i think he's he's he's such an amazing guy people who are into martial arts like you and i i would have known about maitai or the thai style of fighting but he made everybody in the world get aware of it so i have great respect for tony i love him yeah yeah great guy as well um did you do much gymnastics before you started getting into the movies where does all this flipping come from so calorie bite is divided into different sections where you have to have a certain amount of gymnastic abilities and whenever much younger we just you know there's a phase in life where you love weapons there's a phase in life when you love to kick there's a phase in life and you just want to use your body into different angles then there's a phase in life where you love gymnastics i've gone through all these phases and i personally believe that after you become very muscular like i was in command or two and i was doing front flips and all it starts hurting your body a lot more you love doing it you have the strength but it's it does harm your body yeah so at this weight that i am right now i'm very quick i love my flips i'm loving just moving like a dream oh so i just i keep shifting if i'm heavy i don't want to relax now then much right i'm really enjoying this i'm really loving the mobility gets higher the muscles do hinder a lot of movement yes they make you look like yay but did you i'd watch you and the way you performed in boycott those acrobatics the kicks i know that this guy look look at him dude i know it's it's not easy for him and he's still doing it i respect it but for movies we do this and we love it and people love doing this the boyka is not my natural weight i obviously put muscle on to play a boycott and then but that was when people a lot of most people first saw me so i prefer not to be that weight the whole time because yeah i feel better at this weight i'm lighter i'm quicker i'm faster but of course it looks great on the screen and i do think people prefer me to look that way but it's it's hard to keep it there and do martial arts as well it's difficult on it i need to get arms like yours then i need to get the chest like yours dude you've got the best pictorials yeah mine are a bit more hairy than yours so have it without the hair right let's talk about commando 3 then because there's some great action in that which is done by a good friend andy long who was behind the scenes right this is in bradford this is bradford yes i can't believe you made a movie in bradford it's i love this place it's so many asians i've never seen in asia together it's india away from india but you should have given me a call we didn't know each other then but i would have loved to have visited the set it's not far from me i will i think i'm coming back in april to shoot a movie i have a feeling so you have to be on the set you have to honor us with your presence i would love to come down and check it out so we wanted the fight to be very quick and these boys are great acrobats they're free running champions and in my movies i love the women to fight like real women i don't like them to just say hi eat and all which normally happens in hindi cinema so i was so proud of the women both fighting like that i like that move there i love it here you gotta kick that guy legitimately huh yes and yeah i love the sequence i've always wanted to do this chord like we fast use the things obviously inspired by jackie chan and i just loved the quickness in it i just loved i wanted to use the dustbins when i came to bradford i'm like does bins have to be used this is something i love doing yeah good bit of dust bin work oh that's nice there so how many times how how did you did it take you long to practice that well i love this one the car is my favorite instrument now who opens the door did you open the door as well then i come out of the car yeah yes so you know scott like again we didn't have so much time to do this and uh the light was going and this was the last shot of the evening yeah i was supposed to get into the car and the guy on top of the car was supposed to get me while the guy in the back is also supposed to get me and they have to time it together and they just could not get it together and so i got in the car i was supposed to open the door roll out of it and then i made a attack but we did it and i felt so good about it so you've jumped in through the window and you've opened the door open the door in the left hand roll on my right shoulder and come out of it so that's people probably think are getting through the door the window's the hardest bit but i bet like finding the handle to open it from the inside was probably more difficult proper jackie chan stuff yeah i love him man this is tribute to his action yeah oh now that that's good man all of that on is this is like a wrestling move for me it's like lucha libre mexican wrestling i i've been really inspired by um the culinary parts movement on the human body and when i was growing up i started watching wrestling and i was like my god they do this i should use it i love this part yeah andy wanted a top angle and then he wanted the side angle and i had to show my face yeah well you can see it here yeah but the hood came up and i was like did he see me did he see me he's like yes yeah you got to make sure to see you because it is a side on isn't it so you didn't get the top angle no this he wanted it in one go so either you have to choose the top of this so this shot here [Music] you're doing a somersault but when you did the two together filmmaking wise did you just do a regular somersault or did you start from your hands no i did a regular somersault yeah but still man that's straight out of armor i can take the flip and that's when we just did the flip and i did this straight out of armor of god that move and then followed up with another move from armor of god yes i love it does that guy on a wire oh yes he is yeah brilliant and andy's great man ali is really i'm working on i think two more action movies on it with him so i'm excited get me in it come on don't you need a good bad guy i need a very good good guy and we are supposed to do it's good it'll happen i want i need to get in the bollywood scene i want a song a dance number at the end so scott you know why this is my favorite one of my favorites so what you see i have a safety harness with me but what you see is not the real stunt i invested about three hours doing it on two tables and i by the time i had reached this place i was exhausted but we did it the precision of holding the bar from that leap you'll watch it yeah into this sleep is what i practiced endlessly and then taking my legs out of it when it's a bar it's different yeah this is when i had maximum fear of just touching my toe on the bar i could just touch it and i could just just go or not hold the bar properly because it was moving at the right it was just my speed i had to take everything towards the other side so it was to everything was to do with my speed i had to hold it push it and get my legs out when you do it on a table it's much easier but when you do it on a bar your brain is that you might just hook onto it on a table you can still slide off yeah i'd let you do some stuff in bradford then was this your head yeah yeah you've gone for the police story moment thick version of sugar glass yeah a thick version of sugar glass oh it's these two so these guys from germany so the german boys they've been trained at the shaolin temple they both are identical twins and they're identically good yeah it raises your game as well when you work with uh really good people of course everything was it was amazing i just enjoyed they were so quick and i enjoyed being fast with them and they were so precise and brothers yeah yeah it's really cool sequence proper like jackie chan i mean that's what andy long does right he's from the jet for people that don't know andy long who choreographed this is from the jack chan stunt scene this is some assault and i was like did did you get my face did you get my face he's like yes yes yes he stops it he's a yeah you got it there cool camera work very well done this fight i think it took us about five hours to shoot this fight and about half a day's training with them so he was trained for half this this particular sequence because we we have scheduled all the fight sequences into uh morning afternoon if we get this faster in the evening that was a hard hit wasn't it yeah but i always find that these intricate sequences here if you need to really rehearse a lot because you're moving at such a fast pace it's kind of hard to remember the choreography you don't have time to think do you just got to go with the flow this is what it's all about you can see all the choreography and it's good and entertaining it's framed lovely and yeah it's just entertaining stuff and then this oh my god this was my dream to do this and uh so we tried it first with the i love using the springboard so first we tried the springboard so that i could climb on him this is not with the springboard this is just right and then when because he's not very tall so my requirements got for the guy was he has to be a wrestler to start with and secondly he has to be able more than six three so that i can climb on his shoulder turn him around and fall so now like we shoot movies i meet a man on the set and he's come and he's a bit shorter than i am and uh but very fit very well trained very very fit and we tried everything so that we could turn him around and the head would not smash the floor we just couldn't get it we kept trying and we said okay keep rolling then we put a safety harness on his backside so that we could twist him so that i could twist with him we tried every fermentation combination and finally we got this and if you see it the neck is very close to the ground it looks very violent do you think he hit the ground harder than he wanted no a few times he did not this time his neck almost you know you might see ah yeah this one wouldn't like to say that that landing but he was very talented bang that's crazy a bit of why work don't even know how to figure that one out yeah but that why work is the most difficult thing to figure out over here because there are two people rotating at the same time when it's one person it's easy you have to use a lot of skill yeah brilliant stuff fidget main man main man getting the job done action star it's fantastic i love it so much more to do scott man yeah so what to do this is just the beginning like every time i i just had a release and um again andy was the action director we did a different kind of like this is a not trained martial artist or a trained fighter that i thought like in this movie that just released it's done very well yes i heard you again a lot of praise for your acting performance in this new one no dude i got lucky this time oh you know i don't think you got lucky i think you're just a good actor right the same finally people realized it yeah no i completely can uh a model an action hero that's not something that you grow through you don't seem to be a great actor so i've broken those barriers and i'm quite happy with it yeah so i loved like so i did action where this guy doesn't know how to fight and the way a non-fighter fights because he really has to fight like i see my mom in a conundrum or in a position where i have to get her out of i have to fight whether i know or not so i fought like that and that was a lot of learning from me now congratulations on the on the reviews uh for that one it's uh it's fantastic mate you're doing brilliantly i'm very very happy for you and you're a super nice guy you absolutely deserve it can't wait to see what you do next and um next time you come to england to make uh an action movie give it give us a call come on at least i want to come on the set and check it out at the very least i'll be the happiest dude future james bond i'm not saying i love it thank you video you keep up the great work and um appreciate you coming on the show and talking through this fantastic stuff that you've been doing i look forward to what you do next my friend it's brilliant stuff i always admire you great respect for you man god bless you and i'll see you very soon [Music] you

Channel: Scott Adkins

Views: 307,624

Rating: 4.9653296 out of 5

Keywords: commando, junglee, force, bollywood, hindi, action movie, indian action star

Id: Ym1-MEjZon0

Length: 54min 47sec (3287 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 15 2020

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