“Merantau' was my attempt to infuse drama with martial arts. It was a bit of a mi…” — Gareth Evans

There are a lot of people in the world who are very good at martial arts but that doesn't make them good screen fighters. It's almost two different disciplines.

My wife is Indonesian-Japanese... and what happened is, she found me doing a documentary on pencak silat. And through the process of doing that documentary I had fallen in love with silat and learnt enough about the culture that I could comfortably live and work in Indonesia.

Yes, part of me was like - 'The Raid 1' and '2' were amazing for me, incredible for me, but I didn't want to just be doing 'The Raid' films all the time.

What we did with 'The Raid 2' - I felt that we kind of closed that off nicely in 'The Raid 2.'