IRON FIST Stunt Coordinator Says Finn Jones Didn't Want To Train For His Fight Scenes

Iron Fist ended up being the most disappointing of the Netflix Marvel shows and one of the most laughable things about it was that the main character, played by Finn Jones, clearly didn’t know how to fight. This is just crazy to me because the character was supposed to be a badass martial artist!

Well, according to Iron Fist stunt coordinator Brett Chan, Finn Jones didn’t want to train for his fight scenes in the show! While speaking with JAMCast, a weekly podcast hosted by fellow stunt coordinator Travis Wong, Chan shook his head when Wong mentioned Iron Fist, joked about having PTSD after he worked on the show. he shared:

"You would be surprised. I got slammed by a lot of people after that came out, they had no idea. Johnny and myself were doing 21-22 hour days trying to make things working and having Marvel say 'Eh, no.'"

He went on to say that Jones didn’t want to train and reveals that the reason why Jessica Henwick’s fight scenes were so good, was because she actually put in the work:

"Everyone's fighting and the actor doesn't want to train and...'Guys, throw me a bone. Give me something to work with here.' That's probably why the best sequences were with Jessica Henwick because she trained four hours a day and she had zero martial arts experience."

You’d think that Jones would actually want to look like he could actually fight in the series! Back in 2017, Jones offered an excuse for the poor fighting skills, explaining that the schedule was so tight:

“But really, I was learning the fight scenes 15 minutes before we actually shot them because the schedule was so tight. So 15 minutes before, the stunt director would talk me through the choreography and I'd just jump straight into it. It really was a baptism of fire and I just learned on the job and I've been doing it for 12 months now. With practice, you just get better and better with dealing with that kind of schedule.

“It was very intense, to begin with. When I first moved over to New York, before I started actually filming, I had three weeks of very intense martial arts and weight training preparation. But then unfortunately once the show started, the filming schedule was just so tight – I was working 14 hours every day, six days a week, days into nights, nights into days – and actually my schedule didn’t allow me to continue the training as much as I really hoped.”

But Jessica Henwick managed to find four hours a day to train? So, we’re getting two different narratives here on why the fight scenes in the series with Finn Jones were so bad. Maybe there’s a bit of both, but Chan was clearly frustrated with Jones because he didn’t want to train.