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Originally posted by: Shin Densetsu @ Hisstank.com

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Celebuzz was able to catch up with Storm Shadow actor Lee Byung-hun recently. During this chat, Lee spoke of the differences between Rise Of Cobra director Stephen Sommers and GI Joe Retaliation director Jon M. Chu:

"When I first shot G.I. Joe, I was so uncomfortable,” Lee tells Celebuzz, who is in Los Angeles promoting the Korean film Masquerade. “It was my first experience in Hollywood and I had to work in English. So I was kind of shy and embarrassed, so I didn’t talk a lot, to the director especially. He was always busy. But Jon Chu’s different. He always wants to talk a lot – discuss the scene and the characters. So I was really comfortable with that."

The article mentions that Lee didn't do much research on Storm Shadow after he was initially cast for the role:

"I didn’t watch the cartoon,” Lee reveals. “I just needed basic information because when I first asked Stephen Sommers if he rather I studied more or watched previous G.I. Joe stuff, cartoons, he said no, I want you to create something else.”

“Then he gave me the basic information about Storm Shadow,” he explains. “He gave me some of his characteristics, and then I created some other characteristics with that [role]"

While filming his new movie "Masquerade" in Korea months back, Paramount announced that Retaliation would be delayed until March 2013. At this point he was called back to the states for 1 more day of shooting, which turned out to be longer:

"That was when I was filming [Masquerade],” he explains. “I’m in 90 percent of the movie, so my schedule was crazy. And then all of a sudden they called me and said you have to come here because we have to shoot one more day, so I told my director that I had to go to the States.”

“Even though it was only one day [of shooting], it took five days because you’re going back and forth so they hardly allowed me to go,” he reveals. “But my flight was so long and I was used to doing a period movie, that it was really hard to act in English.

“I made no good takes in 23, and that was my record,” he admits. “Thank God it was just one day.”

Aside from Channing Tatum and The Rock, it's not known who else aside from Lee was called back to shoot more footage.... [Read More]

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