How different of a fighting style do you want to make Snake Eyes from say Darth Maul?
Ray Park: Well, Snake Eyes is straight up my alley to be honest with you, because I get to use katana swords and I get to play the ninja stars and I used to do that as a kid anyway. I was a kid in the pub thinking he was a ninja. So I got to sort of be that kid again in Snake Eyes. Darth Maul was different because it was the staff…it wasn’t as much of the wushu style that I was showing. Being Snake Eyes and working with the stunt boys, they wanted to show a range of martial arts but use my style as a catalyst to get to whatever we were going to get to. So we combined all types of styles, like a hybrid. So it wasn’t just my style, it was using everything –kicking punching and especially when it came to the weaponry, with the sword work, I did my flare. Because that’s what I love doing. I love playing with swords, spinning swords, jumping with swords. So they just left it up to me when it came to the swords. They knew that I would add a little twist. So it was very different from what I’
