Le-Van Kiet Interview: The Princess
The Princess, premiering July 1 on Hulu, is a new action thriller that takes the traditional damsel-in-distress narrative and turns it on its held to go on a fast-paced adventure as one woman fights her way to freedom. Joey King (who stars in Netflix's popular The Kissing Booth franchise) plays the princess trapped in the tower, but who needs to prince to help her escape and take back her kingdom from her evil fiancé.
In order to prepare for The Princess, King has to train intensely alongside the stunt crew. Director Le-Van Kiet has been making a name for himself with martial arts crime thriller Furie and shark horror story The Requin, and his latest film takes that action expertise to a new level. Other important cast members include Dominic Cooper (Preacher) as the evil lord pining for a throne, Olga Kurylenko (Black Widow) as his right hand woman, and Veronica Ngo (The Old Guard) as the princess' fighting instructor Linh.
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Screen Rant spoke to the accomplished director about how he approached the fight sequences in The Princess, which scenes were the most difficult to get right, and how much fun Dominic Cooper had playing a villain.
Screen Rant: I love how you just hit the ground running, with no room to breathe from the very start. How do you prepare for that, and how do you prepare Joey for that?
Le-Van Kiet: It's all in the story because, constructing it, we wanted to hit the ground running. We knew our fans are going to come in there and say, «Okay, what else are you gonna give me? I get it. There's a princess, she's trapped in a tower.» It's a universal story all across the globe, everybody knows the image of it — and I think that was
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