Everything Everywhere All At Once: The Daniels Told Us How They Design Fight Scenes

The directors of Everything Everywhere All At Once talk about how they design a fight scene and what it was like to work with Michelle Yeoh to make some of the best martial arts fight scenes in recent memory. In our Everything Everywhere All At Once interview, we talked to Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (better known as the Daniels) about the best fight scenes in movies and what particular movies inspired them. Before we knew it, the conversation quickly turned to Keanu Reeves and The Matrix as well as Jackie Chan. The Daniels were inspired by some of Jackie Chan best fight scenes, like the ladder fight in First Strike. For the climax of the movie, they talked about how they worked hard to make kindness as exciting as a John Wick fight scene. Beyond the inspirations for Everything Everywhere All At Once, the Daniels also talked to us about designing the Everything Everywhere All At Once fight scenes. They worked with the Le brothers—the martial artists behind the MartialClub YouTube pag