Rick Yune Biography
Rick Yune who is commonly known as “Richard Yun” is a Korean-American actor, screenwriter, producer, martial artist, and former model. His most notable roles have been in the movies Snow Falling on Cedars, “the first Fast and Furious” film The Fast and the Furious, and in the James Bond movie Die Another Day. He was also part of the main cast of the Netflix original series Marco Polo until the series was canceled on 12th December 2016.
Rick Yune Age
He was born on 22nd August 1971, in Washington, D.C., United States. He is 47 years old as of 2018.
Rick Yune Family
He was born to parent Wonhui Park(Mother) and Taeho Yune(father), who were both Koreans. The actor has a young brother called Karl Yun “actor”
Rick Yune Education
He was educated at Our Lady of Good Counsel High School, Silver Spring, Maryland, and St. John’s College High School. In 1994, he received his degree in finance from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. Also, he was one of the original hedge fund traders for SAC Capital but left to pursue entrepreneurial ventures. He is involved in the practice of many forms of martial arts.
Height
He stands at a height of 1.83metre tall.
Rick Yune Net Worth
The star has an estimated net worth of $ 3 million as of 2019.
Rick Yun 2019
The 47 years old performed the role of “Master Clive Lee ” in the film named Alita: Battle Angel.
Rick Yune Actor
His first film was in 1999 where he took “Kazuo Miyamoto” role, a Japanese-American war hero accused of killing a respected fisherman, played by Daniel von Bargen, in the close-knit community, in director Scott Hicks’ film adaptation of David Guterson’s post-World War II novel, Snow Falling on Cedars.
The actor starred twice as Johnny Tran, “the ruthless leader of a Vietnamese gang and the rival of Vin Diesel’s character” in the 2001 film The Fast and the Furious.
Rick Yune Martial Arts
He practices many forms of martial arts, and also changed the spelling of his last name from “Yun” to “Yune” for Screen Actors Guild (SAG) purposes. The star performed with Russell Crowe and Lucy Liu in the 2012 martial arts film(The Man with the Iron Fists).
Rick Yune Model
He is Korea Model who was discovered by a modeling agent and soon became the first Asian-American featured in advertisements for Versace and Ralph Lauren’s Polo.
Rick Yune Alita Battle Angel
Battle Angel is a 2019 American cyberpunk action film based on the 1990s Japanese manga series Gunnm “also known as Battle Angel Alita” in the English translation by Yukito Kishiro. The Film was directed by Robert Rodriguez, and written by James Cameron and Laeta Kalogridis, and produced by Cameron and Jon Landau. Rosa Salazar stars as the titular heroine Alita, an amnesiac cyborg girl who sets out to learn about her destiny after she awakens in a new body with no past memory of who she is. Christoph Waltz, Jennifer Connelly, Mahershala Ali, Ed Skrein, Jackie Earle Haley and Keean Johnson also star in supporting roles.
Originally announced in 2003, production on the release of the film was repeatedly delayed due to Cameron’s work on Avatar and its sequels. After years of the film languishing in development hell, Rodriguez was announced as the film’s director in April 2016, with Salazar being cast the following month. Principal photography began in Austin, Texas, in October 2016, lasting through February 2017.
Alita: Battle Angel had its world premiere at the Odeon Leicester Square on January 31, 2019, and was released in the United States on February 14 by 20th Century Fox in Real D 3D, Dolby Cinema 3D, and IMAX 3D formats. This also marks the first film to be produced by Lightstorm Entertainment in ten years since 2009’s Avatar. The film has grossed over $384 million worldwide, making it the fourth highest-grossing film of 2019. It received mixed reviews from critics, with praise for its visual effects, action sequences and Salazar’s performance while criticism was directed at the “muddled” screenplay and the set-up of sequels.
Rick Yune Workout
The celebrity Walk out Routine
- High-intensity training
- Eats according to his blood type
- Nutritional choices of egg whites and yams when training for a role
- Boxing
- Running
Rick Yune Movies
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1998 |
Nathan Grimm |
Extra |
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1999 |
Snow Falling on Cedars |
Kazuo Miyamoto |
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2001 |
The Fast and the Furious |
Johnny Tran |
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The Fence |
Lucky Chang |
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2002 |
Die Another Day |
Zao |
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2008 |
The Fifth Commandment |
Chance Templeton |
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Alone in the Dark II |
Edward Carnby |
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2009 |
Beyond Remedy |
Dr. Lee |
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Ninja Assassin |
Takeshi |
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2011 |
Remigration |
Jonathan Park |
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China-Town |
Man |
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2012 |
The Man with the Iron Fists |
Zen Yi |
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2013 |
Olympus Has Fallen |
Kang Yeonsak |
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2019 |
Alita: Battle Angel |
Master Clive Lee |
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Rick Yune Fast And Furious
Jesse Races Tran Scene (6/10) | Movieclips
Rick Yune Prison Break
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Rick Yune Olympus Has Fallen
Rick Yune Die Another Day
Die Another Day – Rick Yune Interview
Rick Yune Marco Polo
Rick Yune Interview
Exclusive Interview With Rick Yune On The Man With The Iron Fists
By Alexander Lowe
The discussion involved, his love for the project, what the intense shooting days were like, the involvement of Tarantino and more.
Rick Yune: Yeah Man With The Iron Fists, it’s a crazy film. You will not be disappointed. Russell Crowe said that he thought it was a few beats away from perfect, and this a guy that won an Oscar for Gladiator. Quentin Tarantino, who did Kill Bill, said he was intimidated by some of the stuff he saw. So RZA did a great job to get a lot of components involved and fans are gonna love it. Truthfully, I’m my worst critic. I don’t like watching myself in the movies I’ve done, but this one I’ve seen 3 times already, and I love it, even more, every time.
I play a character named Zen Yi who is the son of a warlord, in the mountains romancing the woman in his life, and my father gets assassinated so I leave her in order to go investigate the death and avenge the murder of my father. I link up with RZA and Russell Crowe to go save a village and save the day.
WGTC: So you’re saving the day this time, it sounds like you’re one of the good guys here?
Rick Yune: I love these characters that have a duality to them. I wanted to be Han Solo, not Luke Skywalker. It’s more realistic for me, nobody is that square, especially in today’s world. We all have two sides to us, and that’s what makes us human. I love movies where everybody was an outlaw in some way. But when these men get together to do something positive it makes the story more interesting. And there’s a journey for the film.
WGTC: The movie’s really action-packed, what percent of stunts did you do yourself?
Rick Yune: I worked with a guy named Corey Yuen and he really wanted me in there, so I did all my own stunts. Literally. The stunt double that they had for me was 5′ 6″ 120 pounds, I’m six foot, 180. It served the film to see me in it doing everything. But the level of talent there was so great that you could just roll with it. There were some challenges because I don’t think I saw my trailer once.
I had to work from multiple units at once. I was sleeping about 2.5 hours a night, and it was a language barrier. Only a few people on set could speak English. The rest of the crew and coordinators couldn’t speak it at all. They would discuss among themselves and come up to me, tell me what to do and then it was (in Chinese) “1,2,3 go”… And so that was most of the shoot. Basically, I don’t think I saw my trailer once.
WGTC: You said a lot of the crew didn’t speak English. Were there any challenges you guys ran into with that?
Rick Yune: Na, I mean there’s something magical about film making and people that work within the film. It’s the most beautiful thing because so many people are coming together and they just think about a common goal. It’s almost similar to the military, but all of a sudden you’ll be in there and you’re about to do something and everybody is thinking about the next person. It’s not always the case, but the films that I’ve worked on it’s been that way, and it’s amazing. It makes you want to work harder.
So even when you go to another country and they speak another language, you saw these people come together and they created something amazing because there’s a common understanding in wanting to create something of an art and create something international. That’s what happens in what we do. That’s part of the reason I love it so much.
WGTC: Now your costume, from what I’ve seen, you’ve got some pretty intense spikes on your armor. Any fear of impaling yourself? Did you come away with any battle scars?
Rick Yune: Yeah man, we were getting hit up all the time. We were dealing with the old realistic props and one time somebody was riding and one of the swords, which was an actual sword from the 18th century, the lock on the sword kind of popped open and the sword popped out and barely grazed another person. It nicked the horse behind him.
As far as the fights were concerned, we were making it realistic, so I would get hit some times, other people would get hit. It was one of those things, but it really brought a level of intensity to the film that I think audiences are going to love.