In an EXCLUSIVE interview, Lewis Tan gets candid about pushing himself outside of his comfort zone -- in both fight AND sex scenes
It's double, triple layered complexity. It's the character work, it's remembering choreography, we're doing a long take of 200-300 moves in one take, memorizing exactly where to land, making sure you're hitting your mark every single time and then doing it over and over and over until we get the perfect shot. We're just trying to step up the level and do things differently, give people something they haven't seen before.
I think a lot of people, they don't quite understand what it takes to make a movie like that. If you watch this movie, it's action packed from beginning to end, we're fighting 10 hours a day for three months. They don't quite understand what that takes. What it takes is to be constantly training, you have to stay ready consistently. So, now I'm here in Hungary filming Shadow and Bone. Not a martial arts show, but I'm still training every day, whenever I can.
You have hot people fighting, awesome mythology in locations that are just cool to watch, what's not to like?Waiting for your permission to load the Instagram Media. It was weird because I haven't done a fully nude scene before and, uh, it's a bit awkward. I'll tell you a funny story I haven't told anybody ... I don't know if I should say this actually. It's like, Pearl was really great to work with and she made things really comfortable. We talked about everything beforehand with the director. It was nice. What I was gonna say, it's just awkward because you're wearing these like, it's like a nudie sock.