The barons use assassins named clippers to enforce their laws and to protect the resources they control.
My joke to AMC is that oncezombies are done, this is kind of what happens.
Zombies led to kung fu.
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It was a very busy shoot.
Just ask Daniel Wu, who stars as the series protagonist, a clipper named Sunny.
The actor, 41, had to juggle filming fight sequences with actingandproducing.
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I had a lot of Advil, he says with a laugh.
We had to go from zero to making them look like experts on screen, Wu says.
Among the newbies, 16-year-old Aramis Knight, who plays M.K., impressed Wu the most.
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The young actor quickly picked up the flashier wirework moves, including backflips and back handsprings.
He did them with pure confidence and landed them perfectly, Wu recalls.
And judging by whats on screen, that training has produced some eye-popping, intense fights.
Naturally, all that fighting makes the series pretty bloody.
I think the visual effects crew was pouring a lot of blood around, Wu says.
Sunny begins the story as a hardened warrior, but after he meets M.K.
and learns of his lovers pregnancy, he aches to leave the brutal life of the baron-run society behind.
Its about a journey to enlightenment, Gough explains.
Its a godless world, and M.K.
and Sunny are going to go on this journey.
At its core, its a show about these two people.
And what Im proud of is were able to right that wrong.
Its sad that its taken over 40 years for that to happen, but Im glad that thats happening.
In other words, Wu hopes the show can kick some ass both on screen and off.
Into the Badlandspremieres Sunday at 10 p.m.
