Director Kenji Tanigaki and Actors Joe Taslim, Joey Iwanaga, Yayan Ruhian, Miao Xe & Brian Le talk to Fest Track about character elements and fight scene buildss in regards to the world premiere of their new action film: "The Furious" playing the Midnight Madness section of the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto, Ontario [Canada].
00:28I'm here in Toronto, Ontario for the Toronto International Film Festival.
00:32Was this true of each one of you? Did Kenji talk about or would you like to talk about how you talk to each of them?
00:39Because every actor needs to be directed differently, even with the action.
00:44Actually, me, Bill, Kong and Frank, we have some direction of the character.
00:52So the first step, I remember we gave each character's biography, which we cannot see in the script.
01:02But how is every character's history? So that's a starting point.
01:08The backstory is just for their tips for them.
01:13So after this, I let everybody develop their character.
01:18And then the process of the shooting, maybe this day, oh, that's a good point.
01:24Oh, maybe we can develop this direction.
01:28So this is not the very precise direction. You should do that. You must do that.
01:32But not like this.
01:33And sometimes, like him, every character tell me back, tell me back.
01:42Oh, maybe we can do that. I can do that.
01:45Can I try to do this?
01:47Yeah.
01:48Sometimes he, he gave me a lot of, for example, hey, I, after the, after the, after the big fight, I really don't know, even don't know what his, what, what the name he is.
02:01Really?
02:02Yeah. So can, can I, he said, he asked me, can I, can I add this kind of thing of the ending?
02:08Hmm.
02:09Hmm.
02:10That's why he asked, uh, what's your name?
02:12Uh, what's so many, you know, I just give the direction, but they, you know, they are, they are making, making their way to, uh, you know, chapter building.
02:25Yeah.
02:26And the most of the, their, um, uh, you know, uh, the most of the, their, uh, way of thinking is I, I, I will agree because, uh,
02:37I will lead the actors at the first place, but the actor or story will lead us on the second, second phase.
02:47Yeah.
02:48So that, that's the best way.
02:49So I think, I think we, we work together.
02:51So I think, uh, first team, second team, I, I, uh, but you know, we have different, different team, but the same place.
03:00Yeah.
03:01So I think, uh, yeah, no, just, just, I think just one unit.
03:06Yeah.
03:07I feel like my character is more of a businessman.
03:36You know, he uses his brain more.
03:38Um, and it's like, whenever he feels rage, it's always, is it, is this the right time to, to unleash it?
03:47You know?
03:48Cause he, cause I know what I'm holding.
03:51There's like this atomic bomb inside my heart that I, that I know it's there, but I'm not going to release until it's the right time.
04:03Um, living his life.
04:04Um, living his life.
04:05He never had that chance, but, um, you know, everything falls apart.
04:11Um, the whole downfall, the whole meltdown that I go through.
04:15Um, that's where it clicks to me where I'm like, okay, I'm this person.
04:19Cause I feel like, uh, his character, he's been trying to, uh, portray someone else his whole life.
04:28And he was kind of, um, just kind of lying to himself.
04:31Um, to keep himself up.
04:33But this fighting style was always ending.
04:35Yes.
04:36Yes.
04:37Yeah.
04:38Is that we get it.
04:39That's something instinctual.
04:40Yeah.
04:41Um, well, we talked about, um, about my background.
04:45Um, the, the martial arts skills, like where did he learn it from?
04:50Like where, but he's been hiding it his whole life, you know?
04:53Um, people know that he can fight, but not this well.
04:57Um, and it's like, okay, I want to be able to show this.
05:00I want to be able to do this, but I'm a businessman.
05:02I need to lay my ground and, um, to, to work for my family, but you know, everything falls apart.
05:10And that's where I'm like, okay, this is my chance to let it all out.
05:14So, um, yeah, there's a, there's a calmness in his anger, but, uh, towards the end when,
05:20you know, uh, after the meltdown, it's just all bursts, all release.
05:24And it's, uh, it's satisfying to him at the same time.
05:32There's a preciseness in your character.
05:34Mm.
05:35That's insane.
05:36You know, um, could you talk about that?
05:38Because.
05:40and there's a preciseness in your character that's insane you know um could you talk about that
05:54because there is so much going on could you talk about you it's obviously the bow is is key
06:06my character right my character is uh however it's the character for me is how i make it talk to be a
06:21good man good man for my boss of course yeah so i i i want to show to all the audience
06:32it's that is good man yeah good man for my boss yeah but you have a rage there's something
06:41visceral i'm ganas banget karaku ini because you know you know you know uh how my boss
06:54he's a very it's very good martial art yeah yeah and me as a dog as a dog of him and
07:05yeah i'm to be more more more angry for him i think so okay and the director direct me for
07:15it's it's multi-level that was it's like halfway through was that in the uh the warehouse i think
07:41the ice factory like that that's utterly different than the club utterly different
07:47obviously than outside all these things you know um but everyone's their own environment even
07:54the the bikes yeah you know it depends it depends uh uh uh using environment is uh maybe because um
08:05yeah it really depends but i i don't love the i don't love the because of the because we have a
08:12fight yeah so it's uh keep it clean you know uh for example i don't want i don't want a clean space
08:20i need uh many things is uh uh between uh between you and me actually here me okay and then the process
08:29of the fighting uh i destroy this thing i put away and then make them make the make the way
08:36i think the chains all this kind of stuff is that just finding what's there that you think
08:41will make story sense yeah uh number one because the police station is a um you know it's very
08:49we can say it's a clean space so we set up our setup is or this is uh uh in the construction
08:56uh between the construction so we can we can put the ladder we can put the other other uh like a
09:03hammer or like like a toolbox or many uh or or platform yeah because that's under construction
09:11right so we can we can put anything yeah yeah and uh we uh discuss with our uh stunt coordinator
09:18fight coordinator sonomura sonomura and or maybe because uh we have a ladder yeah uh originally
09:25already we have the ladder and we have another things we have a desk we have a table yeah and
09:30we don't have to avoid these kind of things so we can use everything
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