We chat with Warrior EPbout s Jonathan Trooper and Shannon Lee about returning after over two years for season 3 of the StreamOnMax series and handling the intense fight scenes:
Warrior follows prodigy martial artist Ah Sahm during the San Francisco Tong Wars in the 1870s. Traveling to America in the hopes of finding his sister, he is pulled into the Tong conflict after being sold to one of Chinatown's most powerful Tongs. Season 3 follows the aftermath of the race riots, with tensions between the Irish and Chinese communities continuing to rise. Ah Sahm grapples with his secrets coming to life, his place in the Tong, and Chinatown viewing him as a local legend.
Jonathan Trooper: I think, first of all, we've come back after a really long layoff. So, we fought hard to get back. And in coming back, I think once we did get that green light two and a half years later, we felt a tremendous desire to retroactively earned that spot. And we've come back with a lot more ambition, I think, than we had in the first two seasons. So, you're going to see more elaborate fight sequences. You're going to see more complex storylines.
Shannon Lee: Yeah, I remember I was on set actually when they were filming that fight scene, and it was shot at night. But I got to tell you, first of all, Andrew and Dean, they are just such phenomenal, committed, amazing actors, and they do their own fighting and the sort of camaraderie and the energy that gets going between them in particular in that scene that you're talking about, and then all the extras standing around.
Jonathan Trooper:Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I think what we're trying to convey there is something, obviously there's a two women who are kindred spirits in some ways and who found something deeply important in each other. And at the same time, what we were trying to convey there is the sense that, this is aside from, obviously it's the same sex relationship, but it's also an interracial relationship during a really fraught time racially.
Shannon Lee: Jonathan's going to be better at talking about characters and not giving anything away. But no, I think there are a lot of brilliant pairings in Season 3, and this is one of them. These two people who are struggling with their worlds in very different ways, but find themselves in the same boat in a way, at some point, and in a way, having to become unlikely allies. And I think that their journeys are, we finally get to see sort of a more vulnerable side of Chao.
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