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Two words sent the cast and crew ofMortal Kombatinto a frenzy.
Those would be “Come here!”
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the phrase Scorpion often shouts across theMortal Kombatgames as his piercing whip launches and hooks onto an opponent.
Sometimes he substitutes “Get over here!”
“They said, ‘Yeah!
I’ve waited for this moment.’
Then I realized how popular this move is.”
“This was my first time playing a famous game character,” the actor says.
“Everyone knows his weapons and style.
So, I felt a lot of pressure.”
The film is, in part, about “the birth of Scorpion,” McQuoid says.
“I tried to create an original style.
Since Hanzo Hasashi is a character of Japanese descent, I tried to make authentic movements.”
He likes to think ofMortal Kombatas a whole as “a family drama with excitingly brutal fighting.”
“Each fight has a reason with the emotion,” he says.
“The audience can understand why he’s fighting, what he’s thinking during the fight.”
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He said as much.
“But thisismore demanding than any movie I shot in the last 15 years,” he adds.
“I think.”
Quotes from Hiroyuki Sanada have been edited and condensed for clarity.
