11/13/2022 0 Comments Rise of the last dragon movieTaimak refers to one of the film’s most iconic scenes, in which his character catches flying arrows in mid-air with intense feline agility. “Many fans ask me so many questions that range from what type of training I do to whether or not I really caught those arrows.” “It isn’t just about ‘the business’, it’s about my life before and after The Last Dragon,” Taimak explains. His tumultuous life in the film’s aftermath is related with sincerity and a sort of detached calm. In it, the actor and martial artist discusses his life leading up to the pivotal moment (his first starring role) which would set him on a drastically different path in life. His new memoir is a backtracking through a life under scrutiny and a life eventually left to chance. What should have been a meteoric rise to fame was, in fact, a quickly extinguished flame. The year of the film’s release, 1985, came and went. In Bruce Leroy, Taimak created an anomaly of personalities, housed in an individual who became emblematic of the contradiction to black stereotypes in film presented at the time. His rise to fame was spectacular but brief as the lead in Berry Gordy’s deathless, runaway cult hit The Last Dragon, Taimak delivered audiences a character whose slash and burn approach to the martial arts was strangely offset by his quiet, unassuming charm.
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