Noah Centineo on Street Fighter: Ken Is a Hot Mess

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Noah Centineo: I mean, his defense mechanism is just to be a hot mess and to be impulsive and to act braggadocious and arrogant and cocky.

Allison Rose: Hey, I'm Allison with FlickDirect, and I am here with Noah Centineo. We're talking about Street Fighter. All right, for those who have no idea, who've been living under a rock, how would you describe Street Fighter and Ken Masters?

Noah Centineo: Street Fighter is a movie about two brothers that grew up training martial arts together under the same master who have been estranged for six years. The movie starts with them estranged after six years of not talking to each other. Chun-Li, who's a world-renowned warrior herself, working for Interpol, brings them together to fight in a world warrior tournament. And this tournament comes together to see who the best fighters in the world are. Now, this tournament is being put on by someone named M. Bison. Bison has ulterior motives for putting on this tournament that are quite dangerous. And it goes from there. It's a wild, crazy, zany, hilarious, action-packed, high-octane film that's filled with an incredible ensemble of world-class entertainers. I'm talking 50 Cent. I'm talking Roman Reigns from WWE and Cody Rhodes from WWE. I'm talking Andrew Schultz, Eric Andre.

Allison Rose: Jason Momoa.

Noah Centineo: Yeah, Jason Momoa, who also produced the film. And if that wasn't enough, Legendary is the name of the studio that's making this film. This is the same studio that has brought us Godzilla, Dune, Minecraft, and now Street Fighter.

Allison Rose: Yeah, excellent credentials there.

Noah Centineo: Yeah, if there's anyone that knows how to make a movie, it's done.

Allison Rose: Yeah, absolutely. So Ken, to me, is this juxtaposition, in a sense, because he seems very confident, but he really has a lot of insecurities underneath. So how did you tap into all of that?

Noah Centineo: Absolutely. I mean, his defense mechanism is just to be a hot mess and to be impulsive and to act braggadocious and arrogant and cocky, you know, and to shrug things off and pretend like he's not hurt when really he's just a really hurt, upset little kid because he lost his brother. And there's a lot of unresolved pain there from their falling out. He feels abandoned. And I don't know how you tap into that. You know, you find ways. I suppose, but that's an interesting character, you know, and on the page he read as someone that was very just extroverted and outgoing and I'm the man. And I think we really got to work with Kitao Sakurai, our leader, our director, to build more into it than just this cocky guy.

Allison Rose: Excellent. All right. So how much fight, sequence, everything that you have to do to really bulk up to do this role?

Noah Centineo: Oh, I mean, everything. I train super hard six days a week, you know, in the gym, eating two and a half pounds of ground beef, 12 eggs, onion and a half flavor every day.

Allison Rose: No chalupes? No chalupes.

Noah Centineo: No dairy, no carbs. Oh,

Allison Rose: my gosh.

Noah Centineo: We were doing martial arts training for about nine weeks for our specific martial art that our characters got trained in. Yeah, man, a lot of eating, a lot of training, a lot of ice baths.

Allison Rose: And a lot of rest afterwards.

Noah Centineo: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sleep is actually one of the most important parts of it. Well,

Allison Rose: it's a fun film. And thank you so much for your time today. We appreciate it. Thank you so much.

Noah Centineo: Thank you. I appreciate it. .