Dhanush’s special appearance in Netflix’s The Gray Man has all his fans eagerly waiting for the Hollywood release of the South superstar. Directed by the Russo brothers, known for directing several films under the MCU banner, Dhanush appears as an assassin named Avik San in the spy thriller. Dhanush recently opened up about filming the action sequences during a virtual press conference with the foreign press in Los Angeles on Wednesday.
Even though this is his second film in Hollywood after The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir (2018), Dhanush said that the film saw him reinvent himself as a newcomer. “It took me a great deal of time to understand how Hollywood works. I’ve done about 50 films – 22 years of work in the Indian film industry. You don’t often get a chance to feel like a newcomer. For the first time ever, this Everything happens in the fog. You don’t know what is happening. This time I got a chance to see myself as a newcomer. It was really amazing”, he said, as reported by Hindustan Times.
But just a week before the shooting of his scene, Dhanush suffered a minor setback. “It’s funny. I sprained my neck just a week before the shoot. So, training for a month and a half and then a week before I started filming, I sprained it and it was like ‘What am I going to do? am?!’ Physio just had a week to prepare me to match Ana’s pace [laughs], But somehow, he found a way to make me fit for stunt sequences,” he said about getting ready for his action sequences.
As an assassin, Dhanush has two major fight scenes in the film. In the teaser of one such fight scene released by Netflix, Dhanush is seen fighting against the combined talent of Ana de Armas and Ryan Gosling.
Watch Dhanush’s fight sequence here:
The star-studded cast of The Gray Man, which revolves around the story of an ex-CIA mercenary, includes Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Billy Bob Thornton, Jessica Henwick and reggae-Jean Page. With a budget of $200 million, the Dhanush starrer is said to be Netflix’s most expensive film till date.
The Gray Man premieres on Netflix on July 22.
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