“John Wick: Chapter 4” director Chad Stahelski is totally no stranger to the motion area, however even he bought a bit of starstruck with Yen and Sanada. He lately spoke to Collider concerning the strategy of bringing two legends collectively — not simply as characters with opposing views, however with their very own signature kinds as nicely. “Hiroyuki is used to the Japanese means of doing issues, very exact,” Stahelski defined. “And you’ve got Donnie that is actually the epitome of Hong Kong motion, of ‘Let’s simply be nice and make it up on the day of, and get the vitality.'” Placing these two fighters collectively meant discovering an “natural combine” that served the story — and fortuitously, each Sanada and Yen had been sport:

“When you’ve gotten guys that come from the motion style world, they usually each like to act, it is humorous, all of them have that related thread … They do not wish to be trope-y. They wish to attempt one thing new. They’re very courageous. It isn’t falling again into the identical, ‘Let’s simply do the model I am good at.’

“[…] They had fun. I believe the respect was there, and tremendous courteous to one another, and actually simply, we had all our grand concepts of choreography and stuff, after which it comes down to 2 guys simply doing it very well. And also you watch and you are like, ‘Oh yeah, okay, I’ll shut up now. Allow you to guys do your factor.'”