How did you and the crew prepare for filming “Tom Yum Goong” in Australia?
Before filming, I went there twice to survey locations and prepare work. We had to cooperate with the Australian film service for example understanding how we must work together as well as searching for appropriate locations. We had to find out what we lacked and solve the problems before filming started. We were filming in Sydney for a month because 90% of the story is based there. But there were some scenes which we had to film in Thailand, especially action scenes or ones using explosives because Australia is very strict and they have lots of regulations. Although we had a high budget of over 200 million Baht, we still had to be careful with expenses. At first, we planned to use 50 million Baht for production costs in Australia. But once filming started, we had to increase the budget. There were things that were necessary to pay for. We couldn’t go backward because we had already invested a lot of money. For those who like Ong-Bak, I’m sure they will love Tom Yum Goong. They will se
