I met Ray Park
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Ray Park
WeAintFoundShin — 17 years ago(April 06, 2009 08:39 PM)
At the Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle, WA, on Sat., April 4th.
I handed him a six-minute sketch of Toad, Maul, and Snake Eyes. We had previously chatted a bit at a Q&A he was the host of. Incidentally, he is probably one of the coolest SW actors you may meet, I highly recommend getting to listen to him or meet him.
I had him sign my first disc of TPM's DVD, the one with the close-up of Maul's eyes. He wrote at my request "To the other Ray" (plus 'Ray Park', as well as special signature, and "Take Care", and yeah, my name is Ralon/Ray).
Previously, during the Q&am7ecp;A, he was very animated, cool, and nice. I personally aked him "Without revealing the studio's decision, did you record any lines for Snake Eyes?" He paused, then made a bunch of fighting grunts - which is apparently all he was asked to record, or all that will be heard in the final cut.
He revealed Snake Eyes slashes through some enemy soldiers (Vipers), fights under/near a waterfall (natural or man-made, not certain), and comes to the rescue of a lady (who I hope is Scarlett).
During the first take at the waterfall, he was certain he'd slip, and sure enough he did, falling on his back. Water seeped into the back of his mask and suit. He called for help getting up, but all that came out were muffled grunts (which he acted out to laughter from the audience).
Another mishap involved him riding on the back of a Humvee (you may have seen the pic), and the stunt driver having a failure of communication, sometimes peeling off when Ray wasn't ready, but apparently he held on.
Awhile back, he filmed a re-enactment of a fight from a Bruce Lee film. He played the actor fighing Bruce. Kwok-Kwan Chan (Bruce), began doing the "Dancing steps" around him. Ray felt like he was actually facing off against Bruce, and became mesmerized.
He said right then the other actor could have begain wailing on his face, and he wouldn't have felt it. Ray began doing the dance as well, and soon the director called over a speaker "You don't do that, you're Chuck Norris".
Another crowd-pleasing, cheering and laughing moment.
He noted Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and of course, Bruce Lee, as major influences on him.
Ray revealed that when Maul and Qui-Gon were separated by the "laser walls", during a first take he went off Liam Neeson's cue and began meditating as well. Lucas didn't like that, and had him try something else.
In a following take, Ray began flexing his muscles, pulling back his arms, "c5b4hanneling Chi", that kind of thing, but Lucas also didn't like that, and so we now have the pacing animal performance.
Ray also revealed that he had asked Lucas if he could head-butt Ewan (Obi-Wan) in the chest, the idea to pull back, and gore him with his horns like a bull, to which Lucas reminded him that kids would be watching this. I personally think that would have been BA, and not much more gruesome than, say, Qui-Gon's impalement, or Maul's own bisection.
Finally, when Maul makes the back kick, he originally made it stretch much further, but Lucas felt it was too Martial Arts, and not Force-user-esque. Ray joked about it, acting out a little back kick, saying "I guess you can Force-kick too. You can use The Force through your foot."
What could have been, huh? -
WeAintFoundShin — 16 years ago(April 10, 2009 01:16 PM)
The Q&A. I ask him if he recorde any lines for Snake Eyes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taPt9LvKXa8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B85scHezHAA&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfM-0wP-61c&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLnrgeXWhnU&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMgLx2CYo&feature=related -
rockpassio — 16 years ago(June 30, 2009 08:39 PM)
Awesome. Thanks so much for posting the interview.
The Snake Eyes/Storm Shadow Fan Club:
http://www.arashikageclan.com -
Banana_Warrior — 16 years ago(August 07, 2009 08:59 PM)
No wonder i thought George Lucas was a prude ass. He really is one.
Also no wonder the "prequel" movies sucked so bad compared to the old ones. They really just wanted to cash on it without any worry for the history, acting and actual content of the movie. -
DarthMaulSithLord — 16 years ago(August 23, 2009 05:23 AM)
I met him at the Star Wars Celebration Europe event two years ago. I am not a supergeek so didn't ask about his acting for Star Wars. Instead i just chatted with him a bit on how his stay was there and how his career was taking off.
He then signed a picture of Darth Maul, we shook hands and a nice picture was taken, very down to earth, cool and relaxed dude. -
Nerfstar — 16 years ago(August 26, 2009 11:45 AM)
I didn't actaully talk to him at the 1st ever Star Wars Celebration 10 years ago in Denver, Co, but I did see him go into a freestyle rap at the small rap party for Ahmed Best (Jar Jar Binks). Ahmed was awesome and Ray just upped the cool quotient just because it was so unexpected. After his rapping, Ray did a couple flips on the dance floor and stage then left.
