00:00What was your first entry point into the Karate Kid franchise?
00:03Do you remember first watching the movie?
00:05Yeah, I think I was a six-year-old in San Francisco
00:10and then spent the next two years of my life in what I called kung fu shoes,
00:16which were just slippers, thinking that I was going to be a martial artist.
00:21Yeah, I remember it well.
00:23And now here you are.
00:24What kind of stunt work, if any, can we expect from you in this film?
00:28I don't have to do the high-flying stuff, so my feet stay on the ground.
00:32But the character is a boxer,
00:35so there's quite an involved sequence of boxing and training in the center of the film.
00:41What kind of training did you do to prepare for that?
00:45It was actually quite a lot.
00:47I thankfully boxed, so I had a little bit of a foundation,
00:50but upped the training at home in Los Angeles.
00:53And then when I got up to Montreal, we got into two-a-days
00:55and was on a crazy nutritional plan where I was a lot of sparring.
01:00But also, once you get into it, it's less...
01:03I spar on my own time, but really it's just about learning the sequence.
01:06It's kind of like a dance, right?
01:07Stunts.
01:08So you have to make sure that you're in the right spot so they can be in the right spot
01:10so everything works as it's supposed to.
01:13So once you get the foundation of the movement down,
01:15then it's just about locking in the specifics
01:17and making sure the hits look like hits for the camera, all that silly stuff.
01:21Well, working with someone like Jackie Chan,
01:23does that motivate you to push yourself when it comes to your own stunt work?
01:26Well, not only does it push you, but he has a master's eye.
01:32So if a hit is not a hit or if the elbow is dropped or your shoulder is the right...
01:36He's like, no, no, no, no, no.
01:37It's like this.
01:39He's directing you.
01:40Well, it's part of what is so wonderful about him as a man and an actor and a movie star.
01:45And I didn't know this until I got to work with him,
01:47but he so clearly loves the process of making movies.
01:51And so it's not that he's directing.
01:53It's that he can't help himself, right?
01:54It needs to look right because that's how it's supposed to be.
01:57So he just goes in and it's like this.
01:58And he just gets it all right.
02:00Yeah.
02:01Well, I want to switch gears a little bit.
02:02I know.
02:03Did you hear that John Oliver is advocating for Dr. Oz?
02:06What did I hear?
02:07I saw.
02:08And if I was more proficient at Instagram, I would have plastered that everywhere.
02:12Should probably still do that because thank you, John Oliver.
02:14Or whether or not they pick us up or not, I kind of feel like my career can end now
02:19because I got the shout-out on the John.
02:20No?
02:22Shouldn't have said that.
02:23Okay.
02:23Well, I hope my career doesn't end now,
02:25but I kind of feel like I've made it now that I made it on the John Oliver show.
02:29But if it does, it's great because you got a John Oliver shout-out.
02:32Exactly.
02:32I got the John Oliver show.
02:33What more do I really need out of that experience?
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