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Scotsman
18-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Scotsman
Actor who battled Matt Damon in Bourne Ultimatum to lead Glasgow stage fight workshop
The course is being run in association with the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Sign up to our Arts and Culture newsletter, get the latest news and reviews from our specialist arts writers Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... An actor who battled Matt Damon in the Bourne Identity and a Japanese martial arts specialist who choreographed key scenes in Kill Bill are to teach a stage and screen fighting workshop in Glasgow. Joey Ansah, who gained international recognition as Desh in The Bourne Ultimatum, is to teach the course alongside Tetsuro Shimaguchi, who gained international acclaim as the sword fight choreographer and actor - Crazy 88's 'Miki' - in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill Vol 1. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Run by Stage Fight Scotland and Acting Action Ltd, in association with the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, the four day course, The Claymore, billed as the first of its kind in over a decade, will teach stunts, stage combat, swordplay and martial arts. Joey Ansah arriving for the UK Premiere of The Bourne Ultimatum, in 2007. | PA Also teaching the course is Paul MacDonald, founder of the MacDonald Academy of Arms and chief swordmaker at MacDonald Armouries and Anita Nittoly, a stunt performer, fight director and stage combat instructor, whose stunt credits include The Boys, The Expanse and DC's Titans. Course director Rob Myles, a tutor at the Royal Conservatoire, first trained with Mr Shimaguchi when he was living in Japan 15 years ago and working as an English teacher, as well as a jobbing actor. 'I went over principally to train in martial arts, karate, judo, jujitsu and kendo, and then I was entered into a karate sparring session with a guy who was new to the club that day, and he had a long sleeve shirt,' he recalled. 'Long sleeves mean tattoos, which in Japan means that kind of very respectful version of organised crime.' Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Tetsuro Shimaguchi. | Rob Myles A few hours later, he was taken to A&E with a collapsed throat. 'That whole experience was a big epiphany for me of, 'Oh, I don't want to do this for real. I want to be a performer, and I want to tell stories, and if I want to be involved in violence, it's the safe depiction of it, not the painful kind.' Rob Myres, tutor at the Royal Conservatoire in Glasgow, is leading the course. | Rob Myres He started training under Mr Shimaguchi before working to become an accredited tutor through the British Academy of Stage and Screen Combat. 'I just absolutely fell in love with it,' he said. Now, he teaches stage and screen combat at the Royal Conservatoire, where he also holds short workshops which are open to the public. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad He wants to pass on his skills to actors and stunt performers to boost the skill set available to directors in Scotland. 'I'm trying to bring all of those people together here to train and to develop those skills so that when these big productions come to Scotland, there are people from Scotland that can do the work for them they need doing,' he said. 'I imagine the core audience would probably be actors, performers, martial artists, stunt men, people of that nature. But then you can add to that people that do physical theatre, people who work in film, actors that are already there and want to update their skill set. 'But if there are people who are enthusiasts, people who just love it and have always dreamed of being a part of this, there's no better way to find out what that really means than coming to this workshop.'
Scotsman
18-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Scotsman
Actor who battled Matt Damon in Bourne Identity to lead Glasgow stage fight workshop
The course is being run in association with the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Sign up to our Arts and Culture newsletter, get the latest news and reviews from our specialist arts writers Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... An actor who battled Matt Damon in the Bourne Identity and a Japanese martial arts specialist who choreographed key scenes in Kill Bill are to lead a stage and screen fighting workshop in Glasgow. Joey Ansah, who gained international recognition as Desh in The Bourne Ultimatum, is to teach the course alongside Tetsuro Shimaguchi, who gained international acclaim as the sword fight choreographer and actor - Crazy 88's 'Miki' - in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill Vol 1. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Run by Stage Fight Scotland and Acting Action Ltd, in association with the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, the four day course, The Claymore, billed as the first of its kind in over a decade, will teach stunts, stage combat, swordplay and martial arts. Joey Ansah arriving for the UK Premiere of The Bourne Ultimatum, in 2007. | PA Also teaching the course is Paul MacDonald, founder of the MacDonald Academy of Arms and chief swordmaker at MacDonald Armouries and Anita Nittoly, a stunt performer, fight director and stage combat instructor, whose stunt credits include The Boys, The Expanse and DC's Titans. Course director Rob Myles, a tutor at the Royal Conservatoire, first trained with Mr Shimaguchi when he was living in Japan 15 years ago and working as an English teacher, as well as a jobbing actor. 'I went over principally to train in martial arts, karate, judo, jujitsu and kendo, and then I was entered into a karate sparring session with a guy who was new to the club that day, and he had a long sleeve shirt,' he recalled. 'Long sleeves mean tattoos, which in Japan means that kind of very respectful version of organised crime.' Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Tetsuro Shimaguchi. | Rob Myles A few hours later, he was taken to A&E with a collapsed throat. 'That whole experience was a big epiphany for me of, 'Oh, I don't want to do this for real. I want to be a performer, and I want to tell stories, and if I want to be involved in violence, it's the safe depiction of it, not the painful kind.' Rob Myres, tutor at the Royal Conservatoire in Glasgow, is leading the course. | Rob Myres He started training under Mr Shimaguchi before working to become an accredited tutor through the British Academy of Stage and Screen Combat. 'I just absolutely fell in love with it,' he said. Now, he teaches stage and screen combat at the Royal Conservatoire, where he also holds short workshops which are open to the public. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad He wants to pass on his skills to actors and stunt performers to boost the skill set available to directors in Scotland. 'I'm trying to bring all of those people together here to train and to develop those skills so that when these big productions come to Scotland, there are people from Scotland that can do the work for them they need doing,' he said. 'I imagine the core audience would probably be actors, performers, martial artists, stunt men, people of that nature. But then you can add to that people that do physical theatre, people who work in film, actors that are already there and want to update their skill set. 'But if there are people who are enthusiasts, people who just love it and have always dreamed of being a part of this, there's no better way to find out what that really means than coming to this workshop.'
Daily Mirror
26-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Danny Dyer's 'worst film in the history of the world' fans can't get enough of
Danny Dyer's Assassin has been dubbed 'the worst film in the history of the world' by some viewers, but is absolutely adored by some who call it a 'very underrated, brilliant movie'. With Danny Dyer all set to appear on ITV's new interview series The Assembly this Saturday, April 26, we're taking a walk down a Danny Dyer-shaped road and remembering a few more hidden gems from the former EastEnders actor's movies and shows. Featuring a very loose interpretation of the phrase 'hidden gem', Assassin has been dubbed 'the worst film in the history of the world ' by some viewers, but is absolutely adored by some who call it a 'very underrated, brilliant movie'. With a direct-to-DVD release, the 2015 film features Danny Dyer and the Kemp brothers, Gary and Martin Kemp, alongside Holly Weston, Robert Cavanah, and Deborah Moore. Directed by J. K. Amalou, Assassin tells the story of Jamie, a hitman who has been hired to kill a corrupt official. However things start to go horribly wrong when he ends up falling for the daughter of his intended target (after already killing said target). With Jamie's love interest putting herself in the path of danger as she begins to question the death of her father, Jamie now has to protect his lady from the two gangster brothers who hired him in the first place. The movie was generally panned by critics, receiving 15% on Rotten Tomatoes and 3.8/10 on IMDB. However, Dyer's film resonated with many viewers: 'Low budget as it was, Assassin was never going to be the best movie ever made. A poor man's Bourne Identity? Maybe not, but certainly a gritty, London underworld version of it. The plot was interesting, and while it had to be taken with perhaps a grain or two of salt, it was engaging and exciting all the way through. Assassin is a far better spend of your time than another Hollywood superhero movie any day.' Another glowing audience review of the film says: 'Brilliant movie, very underrated and I don't really understand why people dislike it so much. The acting was great and the storyline was interesting and suspenseful. The movie obviously didn't have a huge budget but for what it accomplished it was fantastic. Great gritty thriller.' Many were still generally negative about The Assassin, with one critic's review of the film calling Dyer a 'talented actor' stating: 'Dyer doesn't so much go through the motions in the role as plead with the audience to save him the bother and recall the motions from last time. He's undoubtedly a talented actor – Harold Pinter cast him twice – but it gets harder and harder to keep the faith each time he trots out the gruff hardman routine that's on display here.' Another critic calls Assassin 'crashingly dull' and added: 'Danny Dyer's hard man whizzes to and from his assignments on a high-powered motorbike, but this crashingly dull low-budget British crime thriller couldn't be more pedestrian.' Audience sentiment towards the film follows a similar track, with one scathing review stating: 'Probably the worst film in the history of the World. Danny Dyer (professional cockney geezer to the uninitiated) plays the eponymous role, and he plays it in a bizarre, understated way, possibly in an attempt to show he has some sort of range. He doesn't.. Aloof and cool is the presumed intention, but in Dyer's inept hands the character is sullen, sulky and oddly camp. 'The plot is predictable, the gangsters are staggeringly stupid and the dialogue - it is so utterly detached from any kind of reasonable reality that it made me laugh out loud on numerous occasions. I cannot for the life of me work out how a film like this gets made - I can only assume it was for a tax write-off.' While one review simply reads: 'Dear, oh dear, oh dear! Reasonable storyline but what dreadful acting! Dyer at his best - which was awful.' Another viewer perhaps sums up the movie in the most balanced way: 'Danny D is an institution, one doesn't watch his films to be intellectually challenged, he needs a good writer and director.' Danny Dyer will be seen in the series premiere of ITV 's The Assembly, slated for broadcast this Saturday, April 26, at 10:05pm on ITV1.
