5/26/2023 0 Comments Marcopolo season 2God, I mean, it was gruelling out there in Kazakhstan. I mean, the Lord Of The Rings guys are still complaining about how uncomfortable it was to run up mountains in all that gear, but compared to Kublai Khan’s get-up, that looked like a walk in the park. How practical are the costumes? Especially when you’re working on horseback and in say, the sword fight with his brother at the end of episode two. The fear in the villagers, the people who are in accordance with him, he’s at the top of the one per cent. It’s just on such an epic level, when you’re playing this character, everything else surrounding him dictates his power – the throne, the people bowing, his huge palace, the guards, everything. The whole design gives everything this real opulence. The costumes, designed by Tim Yip and Jo Korer, are stunning. His physicality, the costumes, the armour, the throne must all play a part in creating a man who sees himself in mythic terms? You just do different things in different scenes. Obviously you try different tricks, using things from your own life and putting them into those circumstances and that’s the joy of playing the part. How do you get into the mind of feeling like that? I’m an actor, that’s my job. You just place yourself within this thing where no-one can do a better job than you and you’re having to make sure that everybody is doing their job but yet in your eyes it’s like, ‘No, that’s not good enough’. How do you get yourself worked up to that level of fierceness? ![]() He often seems right on the edge of his temper, as if he’s always this close to smashing someone’s head in with a club. But through that though, he’s sort of breaking off from his old traditions of Mongolia and becoming this global CEO of the world, much to the dismay of the traditionalists who feel that he’s breaking away. ![]() ![]() He’s continuing the legacy of his grandfather Ghengis Khan to receive the message from the sky god Tengri to unite everything under the blue sky and that’s what drives him really to expansion.
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