Ray Park really wants you to watch his movie

I met Ray Park yesterday. You may know him better as Darth Maul from Star Wars Episode I or Toad from the first X-Men movie or even Snake Eyes in the G.I. Joe movie though I really don’t remember a single thing from that movie let alone a guy with a mask on the whole time that never speaks. Anyways he’s a sweet guy when you forget about the thirty bucks it costs to have him sign something, even if he’s only signing something you brought. Pictures were free though so we made sure to get a couple of those. He has an accent which I couldn’t picture from Toad or Darth Maul, but then Darth Maul was voiced by some other guy.

Anyways, it was a Star Wars event but we ended up talking about X-Men and Heroes. And then I asked him about the recent movie he did with Johnny Yong Bosch, Hellbinders. (You might know him as Adam Park from Power Rangers or Ichigo in Bleach, or my personal favorite, Renton of Eureka Seven.) He told me it might not even come out in this country. And then he told me he was sure I could probably find it online. Online? ‘Are you giving me your permission to download your movie illegally’ I asked. He responded ‘You didn’t hear it from me.’ And added ‘My Dad bought a copy in London.’ To which I responded that if I couldn’t afford to purchase a man’s scribbling of his name I probably wouldn’t be able to afford a flight to London. We then talked a little bit more about the movie. Did you know Ray and Johnny, both skilled martial artists, never fight each other in it? In fact, Ray doesn’t fight in it at all. He did assure me that there are some worthy comedic moments and that Johnny is a great guy to work with. And then as we were about to leave he leaves me with one final thought, though it had popped up a few more times in our short discussion, ‘I’m sure it’s online. You can find it.’ So I just wanted to let any Ray Park fans out there know that he gives you his blessing in downloading his latest movie, Hellbinders. But he also wants you to remember that you didn’t hear it from him.

That was much more interesting than now grown up young Boba Fett Daniel Logan (who was also there and only charges 20 dollars for autographs by the way) talking about Magic Johnson and AIDS.