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The Empire Film Podcast

Donnie Yen: An Empire Podcast Interview Special

The Empire Film Podcast

Bauer Media

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

The legendary Donnie Yen has been kicking all kinds of butt for decades now, in movies like Hero, Ip Man, Blade II, and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. His latest movie, Raging Fire (the last directed by Benny Chan) is out now on DVD, Blu-ray and digital, and to mark the occasion, Amon Warmann sat down with Donnie Yen for an engrossing in-depth chat. Which we present to you in full. Enjoy!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello pod, I'm Chris Hewitt and welcome to an Empire Podcast interview special.

0:19.5

This one was scheduled to be in Las Vegas regular podcast, but I held it back for a couple

0:24.2

of reasons.

0:25.2

One, it was too long and too good to squeeze in there and I didn't want to cut too much.

0:29.2

I wanted to hold it back for today, Friday, February 4th, as part of makeup for episode

0:35.0

500 not being here because we have recorded episode 500 because episode 500 is a live

0:39.2

show that's been recorded tomorrow at Kings Place London and you can also see a live stream

0:43.6

of that if you haven't already got tickets at Kingsplace.co.uk.

0:46.6

Alright, plug it over.

0:48.1

Anyway, what this is is an incredible interview with the legendary Donnie Yann and it deserves

0:53.6

to be heard, dynamic.

0:55.1

On the end of course, it's been one of the greatest action stars on the planet for decades

0:59.6

in classic Chinese movies like Hero and Ip Man and Hollywood Flicks like Blade 2 and Rogue

1:05.6

1 a Star Wars story.

1:07.5

He is now almost 60 but he isn't slowing down any and this week's series release on

1:13.7

Homa Detainment of his latest movie Raging Fire which is no surprises filled with cracking

1:21.1

action scenes.

1:22.4

Among Warman had the pleasure of sitting down with Donnie Yann on Zoom late last year for

1:27.7

an in-depth chat about his career, his philosophy, working with Raging Fire director Benny Chan

1:33.9

who passed away soon after completing the movie and Yann's upcoming role in John Wick

1:38.8

chapter 4.

1:39.8

Kind of feeling things might be about to get sticky for Mr. Wick.

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