It’s like he has this vision of the movie inside his head. Well I play ‘The Twister’, Taylor …

Bruce knew he had to have Sammo help him with his choreography and with his fights. It always makes sense. So here’s me and Sammo moving round the ring, both doing Bruce Lee. Darren Majian Shahlavi (5 August 1972 – 14 January 2015), sometimes credited as Shahlavi, was an English actor, martial artist and stuntman. That’s when I dedicated my time and my energies to training and getting back into shape, and that’s how Ip Man 2 happened for me.

This means that every time you visit this website you will need to enable or disable cookies again. Escape from overtheorizing hybrid identity and turn towards a personal take on duality and feeling of incompleteness…, Zhao Dayong’s stark criticism of the one-child policy amidst the ghosts of Mao Zedong’s reign…, Coming in joint #10th place on the easternKicks’ Top 10 Films of 2018 list, A LAND IMAGINED ★★★★★ is a huge boon to Singaporean cinema. According to Darren who’d just finished shooting his scenes ‘the footage looks amazing!’ The series will be released in late March, early April.). Thanks to Darren Shahlavi for his time, and to Louise from Cine Asia for organising the interview. I’m still pinching myself to be honest with you. He knows exactly where to put the camera, what lens to use, dolly tracks, steady cam, handheld, whatever it is; how to move the camera over the action; you see the fist coming over the shoulder, the fist the other way; he moves the camera around; even operates the camera sometimes… I’ve never seen him go, well that’s not working, let’s try this instead. I just played my first ‘properly good’ guy in a movie called Aladdin and The Curse Of The Jinn (aka The Last Jinn) and believe it or not I play Aladdin! It’s more like an adult version of Aladdin where the genie is evil, and it’s a TV movie made for the SyFy channel and will probably air in April. Legismertebb szerepe Taylor „Tornádó” Milos a 2010-es Ip Man 2. című filmből. So how do productions compare between Hollywood and Hong Kong compare, having worked on blockbusters like Watchmen and 300? So I thought, you know I’ll continue doing stunts for a while, for two years, made enough money that I could afford to go back and be an actor, and say, no, I’m not going to do this role; really start getting picky and choosy about what roles I take and then try and build a career with some money behind me, so I don’t have to just do certain things just for the money.

And I loved Van Damme, but this guy Donnie Yen had a great physique and he kicked so fast, and I loved kicking. He’s somebody that you know is a master at what he does, and you’d never have to question anything he’s saying. He’s a bit of a showman and a bit of a dick really, but he doesn’t think that about himself. Who has been your favourite on-screen opponent? He is best known for his role as Taylor "The Twister" Miller in the 2010 film Ip Man 2. So I said that I had some uncut Bruce Lee footage that nobody had seen and that I had to get this to Bey because no one had seen this and I knew he was looking for it. The first action film I saw was Enter The Dragon, and I the first scene has Bruce Lee fighting Sammo Hung and I thought, this guy Bruce Lee is incredible, everything I’ve heard about him is true – but look at that chubby guy he’s fighting! New readers to this interview will appreciate just how important Ip Man 2 was to his career, and how much it meant to him to appear opposite heroes like Donnie Yen and Sammo Hung.

I’ve never seen anybody command a movie set like he does. Hell, there was me as a kid, seeing him and Bruce Lee doing that, and all these years later here I am pretending to be Bruce Lee opposite Sammo – you can’t beat experiences like that! Subscribe to our weekly digest and you'll never miss a review, interview or competition.

It seems to be easier for me to get work out there, and thanks to Tai Chi Boxer and I Spy and stuff I was able to get this role. Well I play ‘The Twister’, Taylor Milos, which I know it’s not a very English name. Darren Shahlavi in Ip Man 2 Darren Shahlavi was many things in his 42 years: actor, stunt artist, writer, son, brother, uncle, friend, and the inspiration for my column . And I didn’t really think about it until recently, but for the past 20 years I’ve been doing I’ve always wanted to do and I’ve never had my mind elsewhere or thought about doing anything else – it’s just a tribute to really connecting with martial arts films and the actors that play in them. I went to a seminar that Donnie Yen did in London 20 years ago. And I started doing the same thing. It was a dream come true, not only with Sammo but Donnie too, both of them together in the same film – it was quite a trip. You know, you have to be a name to get the really good roles, so I contacted Mike Leeder back in Hong Kong, and Mike was involved in casting some films, nearly got me in Fearless and a few other projects. We speak to Stockport-born, now Vancouver-based, Darren Shahlavi about working with his all time heroes Donnie Yen and Sammo Hung on Ip Man 2, and the joys of being a bad guy… How would you describe up your role in Ip Man 2? It’s quite remarkable to think about the career this man has had. Because I’m a boxer fighting a Wing Chun martial artist, so there’s a real clash of styles. Learn how your comment data is processed. I started going to judo when I was seven years old. If you disable this cookie, we will not be able to save your preferences. And I’m so lucky that I found a way to divert all my energy into martial arts. Check your inbox or spam folder now to confirm your subscription. The San Diego Asian Film Festival returns for... From Seoul To Varanasi and Q&A with Jeon... Sammo Hung interviewed: Ip Man 2 – Round 2! Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think Sammo was still just 19 or 20 when he made Enter The Dragon, and he was still known as the top guy in Hong Kong. And that was how this came about.

I’d got to the point where I was thinking it wasn’t easy to pursue my career as an actor – so I quit acting for a while as I was getting a lot of calls from friends saying, look you can make a lot of money doing stunts for a while instead of struggling as an actor. Following his career went from strength to strength, so it was sad to see it cut short. It was very sad to wake up earlier this week to tweets of Darren Shahlavi's death. So I’m thinking, shit, here’s what I really hope in my head, that he wins for Ip Man 2 – which thank god he did, right?! (It turns out that Darren has signed up to appear on WB’s live-action web series of Mortal Kombat as British bad guy – of course! Your email address will not be published. Sammo always knows exactly how it’s going to be shot. In America we’d have a couple of hours to do a fight. Yoshihiro Nishimura’s ultra-violent 2008 opus still remains a masterpiece of the splatter genre…, A remarkable debut from Korean director Jo Sung-Hee – a filmmaker to keep your eye on….

There were these black curtains all the way round and we’d just put the mats down for judo. I called the magazine and they’d told me he wasn’t working there anymore. We'll just send you an update of the most recent posts this week, with occasional theme-based emails, in line with our, Review: The Forbidden Legend: Sex and Chopsticks 2.

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Strictly Necessary Cookie should be enabled at all times so that we can save your preferences for cookie settings. So when I saw Bruce Lee I combined the two together and when I was in my class doing judo I was pretending to be Bruce Lee, I was acting. RIP Darren. Hollywood is still not getting the idea that you have to spend a lot of time to !get the best fights on screen, and none of this ‘shaky’ nonsense! The film opened to huge critical and commercial acclaim, becoming the most successful Asian film at the box office in 2010 and widely recognized as the biggest and best martial arts film of the past decade. We (female entrepreneurs) at Community Development of Florida are all die hard fans of Darren Shahlavi. And what was Sammo Hung like to work with as a fight choreographer? Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful. So I said to Sammo when I first saw him in Shanghai that I didn’t remember a time in my life when I didn’t know who Sammo Hung was. According to his agent, Shahlavi died in his sleep on 14th January 2015. Listen, when Bruce Lee first went back out in Hong Kong, he was in touch with Sammo, and they had something of a falling out, I understand, because Sammo was in Thailand working on another movie and Bruce wanted him to work on his next film, and he was furious that he was unavailable! I’d reading Combat Magazine since I was a kid and when I was about 15 years old I decided I’d try and contact (writer and martial arts film expert) Bey Logan. – 2015. január 14.) Jet Li and Jackie Chan – together for the first time ever…!