They didn’t tell me what the project was either, they said it was a fantasy film, so I auditioned for it by listening to the notes and trying to get as close as I could to the phonetics. She sent me a voice note with this weird text and phonics, of this guy speaking what sounded like Dothraki. I had an audition after a call from a casting director. But there are big easter eggs there for D&D fans. We need the middle ground and I think they’ve given us the respect and grace to go do that. If we go too pure we lose the interest of people generally. The dynamics work well, it caters to all ages.Ī lot of my friends do play that table top game, and I think fans of that universe they understand that there’s only so far a film can do. I’m glad the jokes come across because it has that Monty Python vibe to it, it doesn’t take itself too seriously, which is what I think the first film. I looked back at Hugh Grant and he winked at me, he got some of the biggest laughs. They laughed at all the moments you’re supposed to laugh at, and I watched them when we were doing our fight scene, they were all tense and the kids were loving it. But when you watch it in the cinema – I watched it with a proper audience for the first time at the premiere. When you’re filming you’re not thinking is this going to be a massive hit, you’re doing a good job and doing your part to help facilitate the story. When you read something it’s quite hard to tell with jokes sometimes, but then Hugh brings his flair to it and Chris brings his flair to it and then you watch them do it on set and its like ‘you’re funny…this could be interesting’. When I first read the script I though this could be hit or miss. I’m a boy from a council estate in west London, a rough end, and to be there was really great.ĭid you expect it to get the warm response it’s had, critically and with audiences? Just being on the same carpet as them was amazing. I used to bunk off school and go to the Cineworld to watch films so it was incredible to be standing there next to Michelle Rodriguez and Chris Pine who’s one of my favourite actors. It was nice to be at the premiere in London, two miles away from where I went to school down the road. How has it been being part of this big Dungeons & Dragons blockbuster? Great movie, and this here is a great guy… But it’s mostly D&D we talk about, in which he plays the wizardry assassin Dralas to thrilling effect. Soon, we will also see him in Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant, a very different kind of war film from Guy Ritchie, set in Afghanistan and starring Jake Gyllenhaal. Most recently he’s been in Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves, opposite Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez and Hugh Grant – arguably the most fun film of the year, a very funny, self-aware and highly eccentric fantasy film. The London-born actor is one of the best kept secrets on the scene, a versatile actor with serious martial arts chops (he trains some famous folk in Brazilian jiu-jitsu, more on this to come), but now he’s truly making a mark on the big screens. Jason Wong is having his breakthrough year in 2023.
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