I like Harada better than Hawkeye. *gets shot full of arrows*
Interview with Will Yun Lee on his role in the Wolverine. Yes I'm still a fan of this guy. I don't know why - he barely has any good roles or screen time. Still pretty even though he's pushing past 40. I might love his character Harada a little too much considering he was in the movie for like 5 minutes. Speaking of 5 minutes - mom's expressed interested in seeing the Mortal Instruments. I might go just for the few seconds Godfrey Gao will be on screen.
Best interview just for this part alone.
"We would actually be on rooftops saying ‘Hurry up! Hurry up! Shoot!’ and I’m literally peeing in my pants because we’re so high up there, attached with one little wire and trying to look cool and trying to get the shot whilst they’re tying it all in with Hugh Jackman on the ground of chaotic Tokyo with Mariko. They’re doing this wonderful over the shoulder shot looking down at them so they’re literally there - they’re waiting in the car and they’re yelling action and Hugh Jackman’s running around the middle of Tokyo, arrows flying and people falling over and [laughing] the people’s reactions on the streets were real because they had no idea what was happening. We’d get that shot and we’d move on. [laughs]
[…] There’s a sequence in the movie where I shoot a character, he falls to the ground and all of a sudden you hear ambulances coming in and a policeman on a bicycle rushing in who sees this Yakuza on the ground in the middle of Tokyo with an arrow sticking out of his back and we knew that was the end of that sequence because we had to move to the next building. [laughs]”
Can you imagine walking down the street and suddenly actors collapsing around you with arrows stuck in them? How did they all manage not to get arrested?
Also, brilliant - stick a guy who’s scared of heights on top of tall buildings doing back flips and get the cops running around all over the place in a total panic. Can’t decide if that’s hard rock or hilarious.
From his twitter - willyunlee1: View from above. Tokyo, Japan. #TheWolverine
After he posted this image, his wife also mocks him on twitter for how he hates climbing the roof to get Xmas lights up.
Is he on the other side of the safety fence? Yeowch. I guess this is the part where the crew and actors somehow manage not to get arrested by Japanese police, and he manages not to piss himself from the height.
I still wish they’d changed his character’s name to an actual Japanese name rather than the wtfery that is Kenuichio. I mean, they’d changed everything else about his character anyway.
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What I have difficulty grasping is how so many people and interviewers seem to have difficulty tracking Harada's loyalty in the movie considering he states his affiliations really clearly several times. He says outright that he serves that family. Which means default power is the head. Of course there's confusion when there's suddenly more than one head (both Yashida and Mariko) the 2nd one is his childhood love and the not-really-dead one is apparently crazy. I think the mistake was in people thinking he had any loyalty to Wolverine. He had zero. Harada helped him because he helped Mariko. He didn't know Wolverine - so why would he have loyalties with him at all?
Best interview just for this part alone.
"We would actually be on rooftops saying ‘Hurry up! Hurry up! Shoot!’ and I’m literally peeing in my pants because we’re so high up there, attached with one little wire and trying to look cool and trying to get the shot whilst they’re tying it all in with Hugh Jackman on the ground of chaotic Tokyo with Mariko. They’re doing this wonderful over the shoulder shot looking down at them so they’re literally there - they’re waiting in the car and they’re yelling action and Hugh Jackman’s running around the middle of Tokyo, arrows flying and people falling over and [laughing] the people’s reactions on the streets were real because they had no idea what was happening. We’d get that shot and we’d move on. [laughs]
[…] There’s a sequence in the movie where I shoot a character, he falls to the ground and all of a sudden you hear ambulances coming in and a policeman on a bicycle rushing in who sees this Yakuza on the ground in the middle of Tokyo with an arrow sticking out of his back and we knew that was the end of that sequence because we had to move to the next building. [laughs]”
Can you imagine walking down the street and suddenly actors collapsing around you with arrows stuck in them? How did they all manage not to get arrested?
Also, brilliant - stick a guy who’s scared of heights on top of tall buildings doing back flips and get the cops running around all over the place in a total panic. Can’t decide if that’s hard rock or hilarious.
From his twitter - willyunlee1: View from above. Tokyo, Japan. #TheWolverine
After he posted this image, his wife also mocks him on twitter for how he hates climbing the roof to get Xmas lights up.
Is he on the other side of the safety fence? Yeowch. I guess this is the part where the crew and actors somehow manage not to get arrested by Japanese police, and he manages not to piss himself from the height.
I still wish they’d changed his character’s name to an actual Japanese name rather than the wtfery that is Kenuichio. I mean, they’d changed everything else about his character anyway.
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What I have difficulty grasping is how so many people and interviewers seem to have difficulty tracking Harada's loyalty in the movie considering he states his affiliations really clearly several times. He says outright that he serves that family. Which means default power is the head. Of course there's confusion when there's suddenly more than one head (both Yashida and Mariko) the 2nd one is his childhood love and the not-really-dead one is apparently crazy. I think the mistake was in people thinking he had any loyalty to Wolverine. He had zero. Harada helped him because he helped Mariko. He didn't know Wolverine - so why would he have loyalties with him at all?