American - Actress | December 2, 1968 -
Working on the Samurai sword is very different because your body position has to be very still. It's a much quieter was of fighting.
Lucy Liu
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Women like to watch women fight because it makes them feel sort of empowered physically and mentally. They feel kind of jazzed and excited by it.
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When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt.
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They were concerned about the racial issue. They thought it was not a safe issue to go Asian, unfortunately.
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Since we didn't use guns, we wanted to make sure we could earn the ability to win the audience over by making it believable. A lot of what you do when you work out in that mode is use your mental energy.
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People use location as a language in films, and Quentin uses action as a language in his films. There's really not a lot of violence. It's more of an emotional beat than it is a physical beat.
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Once you embody the language, the character comes really naturally, especially when you put the costume on.
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Nobody really tells me what's going on, and I find out via the trades myself.
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Men, when they fight in movies, it's a very different style. Harrison Ford was so cool when he had the whip, and Bruce Lee was such an artist that you couldn't take your eyes off of him.
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Japanimation is a whole different art form.
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If you see the Sopranos, you're not going to be speaking in the Shakespearean English.
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I've never really thought about competing with cartoons. If it ever gets to that point, then just shoot me.
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