Was it the case in “Tom Yum Goong”?
– In ” Tom Yum Goong”, in the scene of the warehouse you make a backflip where you take out a guy on a motorcycle catching his helmet underneath, it’s the exact replica of Yuen Biao’s stunt [ Tony Jaa hears the name of Yuen Biao and shouts out “Yuen Biao!!” all smiling ] in the end of “Dragons Forever”. I would like to know if it was one of your influences. Indeed, well seen, this stunt inspired me but I adapted it to be more spectacular. I was inspired by actors like Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Yuen Biao or Yuen Wah. I love to watch their old films shoot in Hong Kong. – In the making of we can see that it took a huge work to complete the notorious sequence in the restaurant. How long it took to prepare and shoot this scene? We prepared it for one month and then filmed in five days with at least 8 takes a day. It’s very difficult to shoot this scene, I had to physically prepare myself just for this scene and during the climb of the 4 floors everybody has to be exactly in place. It was rea
