Did you know that Nicolas Cage is trained in Wing Chun?

Wing Chun’s greatest ever practitioner Bruce Lee may be long dead, but that doesn’t stop the legacy from living on and moving forward. The likes of Robert Downey Jr has trained in the art, but it’s also lesser-known that Nicolas Cage has too. It turns out that Nicolas Cage trained in Wing Chun extensively in 2008 for the action movie Bangkok Dangerous.

There is a particular scene which shows Cage’s skills whilst drilling moves with another Wing Chun practitioner. In this clip, you can see that Cage’s arm movements aren’t particularly bad and are quite speedy at times. However, his shoulder placement could be improved upon and shows that he still has a lot to learn. Whether this scene was edited to make his skills look better is unknown. Nonetheless, it’s good to see a solid martial art live on through cinema.