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

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