Abrams wanted that action. So he called and cast Uwais and Raid co-star Cecep Arif Rahman to hunt down Han. He also asked Uwais to choreograph a lightsaber fight for later in the film. Uwais, a ...
True to form, the silat master does not do things by halves – he's not only directing and producing the film, he is starring ...
The past year has been very busy for martial artist and actor Iko Uwais, which is why he has had to cleverly maneuver his time between working on films and attending to his duties as a new father. Iko ...
How Iko Uwais went from 'The Raid' to being in demand in Hollywood with films like 'Mile 22' and 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens.' The Indonesian martial artist, who got his big break in cult hit 'The ...
In the new Netflix drama, Wu Assassins, Indonesian actor and pugilist star Iko Uwais plays a Kai, an Indonesian-Chinese chef embroiled in a triad feud in San Francisco’s Chinatown as well as an ...
Welsh film-maker Gareth Evans’s low-budget, Indonesian actioner The Raid proved a sensation when it was unleashed in 2012. The plot was blissfully simple: a woefully under-prepared SWAT team enters a ...
When J.J. Abrams resurrected Star Wars, he wanted excitement-and actors who would make the new films fun. For a particular scene in The Force Awakens, when raider assassins board and attempt to hijack ...
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