Takehiro Hira who portrays the role of Kenta in the upcoming movie Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins, sat down with CBM to talk a bit about his role.
“I’m playing the villain in Snake Eyes, the G.I. Joe film, I think it’s an original character who’s not in the comics, so he’s brand new and that’s pretty much all I can say right now.
He’s Japanese, he could maybe be Yakuza too, but yeah, it was a fun experience. You know, there’s Snake Eyes (Henry Golding), and then there’s another guy Storm Shadow (Andrew Koji)… I’m sort of his half-brother or something like that.”
His role was initially revealed back in late 2018.
Regarding the training he received for the movie:
“We trained for about a month and a half in Vancouver, so hopefully it’ll be good. I haven’t been trained properly I guess, but along the way, I’ve learned things here and there and picked up a few tricks. I know some sword fighting, Japanese sword fighting, which is really cool.”