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Actor Martyn Ford reveals the intense and 'horrible' process of becoming Shao Kahn for Mortal Kombat 2. He discusses the hours spent in prosthetics, the challenges of filming fight scenes in costume, and what made the difficult experience ultimately rewarding.
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00:00You looked incredible as Shao Kahn.
00:02What was that like for you?
00:05Horrible.
00:08But the thing is, what a lot of people wouldn't have understood
00:12through watching the film was the prosthetics
00:14and the level of prosthetics underneath the helmet was insane.
00:18Like three and a half, four hours just to get the face and the body on.
00:23And then maybe an hour in wardrobe
00:26and then obviously going to film throughout the day.
00:29Just the general problems that occur, being in Australia,
00:34in a film set with all the lights and the heat and so on.
00:37Then you're wearing prosthetics.
00:38Then obviously the amount of fight sequences that Shao has in this film
00:43and intense fight sequences, you know,
00:46that created so many problems and so much headache, to be honest.
00:52But never throughout the whole sequences and the whole filming of it
00:57did I ever feel that that was enough, I was done, I didn't want to carry on.
01:02It was so exciting, so well-rehearsed, such a good, solid story
01:06and such an incredible character to play that even on those days
01:11where you are exhausted, dehydrated and physically beaten,
01:17I still turned up with a smile on my face and excited to do it.
01:20So it was tough.
01:21It was hard, but extremely rewarding now we get to see the final product.
01:24it's itís very huge on the deed by thebox and so on our inside andunder.
01:24the great special�ier personnel Cristian,
01:24we're going to have a manifest element here in the δine building police
01:25and whatever the potential of this project that doesn't work.
01:25and fundamentally theitudinal cord box,
01:25It's very well,

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