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Many of the best video game movies have come in recent years, including Simon McQuoid's "Mortal Kombat." That movie finally gave the beloved franchise an R-rated movie adaptation, complete with gnarly fatalities. Its sequel will introduce Karl Urban's Johnny Cage, and the actor spoke to CinemaBlend about bringing his character's campy fake movie to life for the impending blockbuster.

What we know about "Mortal Kombat II" has been limited, but McQuoid is back behind the camera and bringing in more beloved fighters from the games. Case in point: Karl Urban as Johnny Cage, and as you can see in the video above, CinemaBlend had the chance to speak with him ahead of the film's release. We asked about filming a faux movie that used to introduce Johnny.
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00:00Can you speak to bringing that like campy fake movie to life? What was that like?
00:04Yeah, well that was a it was a it was a fun challenge because like, you know
00:08I've seen it done and I've seen it done. Well, I thought DiCaprio did a great job and once upon
00:13a time and Hollywood, you know
00:14And just that
00:15Subtle shift between the sort of reality within the movie and the movie within the movie
00:21So for me, I was really thinking about okay
00:23Well, what's Johnny Cage's style of acting? And I thought that he was like a martial arts actor
00:28That's trying to break out of martial arts movies into the mainstream. So he's trying to rip off like Harrison
00:34Ford and Clint Eastwood
00:35So some of the like the facial things you see him do in that movie like he does this point
00:40where he said like goes
00:41And that is totally ripped off from from Harrison Ford and Raiders the Lost Ark
00:46But that's the kind of the acted like Harrison Ford makes it looks cool Johnny Cage. It looks ridiculous
00:52But yeah, just a lot of fun a lot of fun
00:58You
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