“Just curious, Alex…and please, take no offense, but those shoes you’re wearing: are they made for riding a Vespa scooter along the Italian countryside?”
Ah yes, he’s got jokes. The shoes I was wearing were beat up FeiYues from my Wushu competition days, and the person asking me was none other than one of the wittiest personalities in Hollywood (and very simply, such an awesome guy!), Mr. Robert Downey, Jr.
I’ve admired Robert’s work for quite some time (more recently Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Due Date, Tropic Thunder, and of course the Ironman movies) but this time I got to be a part of the process! My good friend MarkosRounthwaite called and asked if I’d be interested in helping him and Fight Choreographer/Wing Chun Master Eric Orum in developing one of the sequences for the upcoming second installment of Sherlock Holmes, “A Game of Shadows.” Um. YES PLEASE.
The great thing about working with Robert is that he works incredibly hard and is absolutely disciplined through one of his main focuses in life, martial arts. The tie that binds! Coming up with the choreography was such a creative experience and working with the guys was nothing short of a blast. Check out the movie, hitting theaters on December 16, 2011!
