so I originally got the idea from the owner of the barbershop which I did
video for it's called a head case I think it's like a chain in the UK and
the owners got two different shops one in Greenwich and one next to my house so
after the shoe for his kind of head case a promo video I thought was could I do
you had a meeting with him and he said he added this idea that what if a guy
went to a barber shop and had a fight with one of the barbers admittedly when
I read the script I didn't really understand it and I was like hmm what is
this anyone I got on set a site to see
everything around me I'm generally like that in person anyway I don't tend to
like pay too much attention to scripts I think like if I trust the person and you
know their character and a personality and that they've got an idea for a film
then when we get there I like to visualize on set rather than
beforehand for most of the stuff because it also helps when you haven't been to a
location then you can kind of tell what you've got to work with and whether it
looks good or not and yeah that was basically what happened
when I first saw the scripts of the barber fight I really liked it I liked
how the location is kind of a starting point and from like a theater kind of
background and I kind of like to start from different starting points the
location being one so two like right around the premise of being in a barber
barbers being out barbers and what constitutes a fight it was quite
interesting to me I'm trying my best not to be a typical kind of oriental film so
the setting of a barbershop makes it unique already I think and then with a
unique twist at the end why they're doing the fight which you find out once
you watch the movie it makes it even more different to the other than
fighting style movie and my own style of filming is like helps probably say is
quite optimistic especially the one taste fight scene but we ended up
putting off after three takes which I thought was pretty good
yeah it was absurd suggestion just you two fighting to use the figure it
because that's the use for the raid movies like our net Gareth Evans shot so
yeah we're very well because I feel that other cameras when the word the gimbals
just too is not intuitive or doesn't have the flow I kind of handheld would
be a bit too shaky and yeah they get a bigwig was just a perfect in-between
things allowed me to kind of do all sorts of weird sort of like going on the
floor coming back up being quite responsive being and to do different
movements to earn like capture the action yeah
challenges of filming the fight and the film would be I think definitely the
fact that we had huge windows and losing our light we filmed in winter so even
then like I think the light starts going about three four like and and then by
four it's gone so and we were shooting things chronologically so we had the
dialogue and the light set up at the beginning which we took a time on and
then when we got the fight we were losing light
everyone's super lovely obviously I knew Blake from before and I knew a LAN from
before as well we did a short film called chopsticks together and I really
enjoy working with Al and I think he's got a really good vision and Chris heals
it comes when I say his background I feel like he adds character into his
fights and it's not just fist fist take this I'm hoping by driving a lot of
fights are about and about showing off rather than showing you know the
character and just applying it within the film
so that's why I really enjoy working with LAN and he works with my
constraints as well what I'm physically comfortable doing and what I enjoy doing
and the things I can show which is really good as well so it's a good
dialogue between director phicorp of an actor I think