Tyler Treese: Johnny Cage is such an interesting choice for a protagonist since he is one of the most iconic characters, but there’s a danger there. Spending too much time with him could see the shtick grow old. How hard is doing that balancing act of his full-of-himself attitude, but not making it overbearing?I mean, it’s a balancing act.
With the anti-bullying, the reality is that Johnny’s real name in the continuity is Jonathan Carlton or something. Carlton is my middle name, so I feel an affinity for him. So a lot of that bullying stuff was just essentially a biopic. That was what happened to me. I was mercilessly bullied in junior high by three particular people, and it was brutal. My mom eventually took me to a martial arts studio, and that kind of changed my life.
That was really interesting because Rick and I were talking about it and we wanted … I don’t know what happened, but I think I called him and was just like, “I have this really bizarro idea and this is going to be the meta moment of this movie, that there’s an actress that plays herself, but is in fact something else.
After we had done the first two, we did not think we were going to get to do any more, but they were very successful. Then we got a call and said, “Hey, we want to do some more, but we want them to be totally different.” So I had come up with like six ideas and sent them over, and this was one of them and it exactly what you said. His voice for Johnny is so strong that it just tends to spark ideas.
I mean, it’s my lifeblood. It was the thing that I grew up desperate to watch all the time. Then you have somebody like Ethan , who’s the director, and then Rick, and we’re both of the same mind. I think when I went in Ethan’s office once during the first two movies, I saw he had a Japanese poster for Steven Segal’s Out for Justice, which is the best Segal movie. . I remember going “Oh, he’s my people!” .
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