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With ‘Mortal Kombat II’ and ‘The Boys,’ Karl Urban Is Lord of the Geeks

The Hollywood Reporter·Aaron Couch·28 days ago
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Logo text Few actors want to show up to an night shoot during their off hours. But during an all-nighter a few years ago, the Mortal Kombat II cast arrived at an Australian warehouse to watch Karl Urban tussle with a team of stuntmen as he shot a scene from Uncaged Fury , a cheesy, ‘90s action movie-within-a-movie starring Urban’s Kombat character, washed-up actor Johnny Cage.  “Karl’s down there in this pretty preposterous outfit, doing all these ridiculous action moves. And then up to the side, in a little grandstand, were all the actors, watching and cheering him on,” recalls Moral Kombat II director Simon McQuoid.  Such was their affection for their leading man, whose Johnny Cage nut-punches into theaters today, just as audiences are inhaling the final few episodes of The Boys , Urban’s zeitgeisty show he leads as the Machiavellian ( or should we say, fuckin’ diabolical? ), supe-hating protagonist, Billy Butcher.…

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