Mortal Kombat 2 Gets Bigger & Darker? Ludi Lin Tells All (Exclusive)
The Joe Vulpis Podcast
Joe Vulpis
4.9 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2026
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Ludi Lin is an international actor best known for his action-driven roles in Power Rangers, Aquaman, and as Liu Kang in Mortal Kombat 1 and the new film coming in May! With a background in martial arts and a passion for storytelling, he brings both physical intensity and emotional depth to his performances. As he returns for Mortal Kombat 2, I can not explain the excitement I have for this new film.
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| 0:00.0 | Like, each fight should be a story in itself. |
| 0:02.5 | And there are so many fights in the second movie, like 27-something fights. Oh, wow. And when you see the movie, you don't feel like that because everything is like, uh, there's a, like, a complete arc. So it's just not, not just random fighting and everything serves a purpose. Power Rangers, I was really into... It's got a bad name now, but I was really into method acting. I thought that was fun. Black Ranger or Lou Kang, who wins in a fight? |
| 0:24.4 | With the machine or no? With a sword or no? We'll give you a sword. With a sword. I feel like... I mean, first impression, you are looking more jack than ever. Are you serious? |
| 0:34.1 | There's veins coming everywhere. I'm very vainy. I was saying, like, veins are just, just blocked emotions because, |
| 0:43.7 | because, like, men aren't able to feel sad. So, like, we just, we just accumulate all the |
| 0:48.8 | emotions in our veins. That's why it's bulging out all the time. |
| 0:51.3 | So there's a lot going on in there. |
| 0:52.7 | There's a lot going on. Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:12.7 | Yeah, it's deep. For Mortal Kombat, too. Did you try and get any kind of different body shape for the role, for Lu Kang? Compared to the first one or compared to my usual? Compared from the first to the second. Was there a conscious transition of what you wanted to alter? 100% there was. Yeah, because I got actually the biggest transition. |
| 1:12.7 | I got a the biggest transition, |
| 1:18.4 | I got a heads up about six months before we started filming that the second movie was green lit, right? |
| 1:25.1 | And the first thing that the director told me was to start growing your hair. |
| 1:28.6 | Because we had this like really embarrassing moment on the first film. |
| 1:31.6 | Where during like reshoots, |
| 1:33.2 | there was this one scene because I had cut my hair then. |
| 1:35.8 | So I had to wear this wig, right? |
| 1:37.7 | And there was one scene where I had to, |
| 1:40.5 | I guess either a reaction shot or like maybe a shot where it's just like I look up, you know, |
| 1:46.5 | like that like that mermaid getting out of water, like that look and I had to flip my head back. |
| 1:52.5 | And then my entire wig just flipped off the top of my head. |
| 1:56.8 | And apparently, I mean, I thought it was funny, but apparently that's the most embarrassing thing for hair and makeup artists. I can see that. Because like, she just freaked out. She, like, ran out of the room. Her face is all red. And it's called, like, wigged. Getting wigged or dewigged or something like that. It's like the worst thing to happen. It's like, it's like equivalent to like pooping your pants on a first date or something like that. |
| 2:19.4 | So for the second movie, yeah, I started growing my hair early. |
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