Justin, how cool was it fighting Chow Yun-Fat, who played Master Roshi?
Chatwin: It felt good. It felt really good. Fighting with him was great, because he’s a pro at this, and I was a fan of the John Woo movies like Hard-Boiled. I remember the first day when I saw him doing his Master Roshi. In the process of auditioning for this, I remember reading with other Master Roshis, and people were playing the part small because he was a feeble old man. I remember when Chow came in, and he just did this huge [campy performance]. I was like, “Oh, my God, he’s overacting. This is crazy! What is he doing?” And then as he kept on doing it day after day after day, I was like, “Oh, my God, there’s something I didn’t see in the manga, which is the broad comedy, almost like kabuki theater that manga has to have that makes it different from movies like Iron Man and Batman.” It’s this broad comedy, almost Stephen Chow-ish, that Chow really understood. I really think it rubbed off on us, because we started getting goofier and goofier, almost like Three Stooge-y, because of
