Scott Adkins, a martial arts star raised on HK cinema (Action Talks #3)

Scott Adkins is an action star (John Wick IV, 2023), producer (Accident Man 2, 2022), martial artist, and just an overall man of action. He talks all about his action film career and his views on the current state of action films. You can find his IMDB profile here: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0675102/ Time stamps: 00:00:00 Introduction 00:01:13 Comes from a family of butchers 00:02:20 Finding Taekwondo 00:04:34 Bruce Lee and American action heroes 00:06:46 Indie film roots 00:08:02 Catering martial arts to his action film career 00:09:46 Doing stunts in Hong Kong 00:13:21 Benefits of the Hong Kong style of action filmmaking 00:14:46 Bourne Ultimatum and thoughts on American action filmmaking 00:16:29 Unleashed with Jet Li and Yuen Wo Ping 00:21:05 How Scott improves himself 00:22:07 Eliminating posing, adding MMA to Undisputed action 00:24:14 Integrating camera and choreography 00:25:51 X-Men action design and what happened 00:28:49 Why American action looks the way it does 00:30:46 Greengrass, "The less the audience sees, the more it believes." 00:33:28 Action in the Nolan Batman films 00:34:25 Working with people you trust 00:35:44 Working with Donnie Yen, Iko, Tony Jaa 00:36:30 Producers bringing in inexperienced stunt performers 00:37:39 Advice for stunt performers 00:40:16 On Bruce working with Western stuntmen 00:41:43 Day Shift and working with JJ Perry 00:45:38 Doing action on the spot on John Wick 4 00:48:50 John Wick style choreography 00:49:06 Accident Man 2 00:50:03 Avengement and making the right kind of action 00:50:57 On Brad Allen 00:51:43 Scott wants to make an action comedy 00:52:39 Advice for filmmakers 00:53:24 More on the action design process of John Wick 4 (recorded later) 00:54:36 Scott's character in Wick 4 00:55:51 Performing in the fat suit 00:57:55 Developing the movement style in Wick 4 01:00:58 Working with Chad Stahelski 01:02:03 Chad's artistic influences 01:02:42 Being a family man 01:05:11 Advice for people who want to start a family and do action films 01:06:18 Stunt performers directing films and the future the martial arts film genre #boyka #scottadkins #johnwick4