218: Live Long and Dance

About this episode

Laiko Foroughi discusses her role as a stunt double in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and the choreography of a notable dance-fight scene.

Laiko Foroughi has been stunt-doubling Christina Chong (La'an Noonien-Singh) on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds for the run of the show. She joins us on Film Fights with Friends to break down the epic dance-fight scene with Spock in S3 Ep8 (a throwback to the Spock vs Khan fight in Star Trek Into Darkness). Laiko is a career martial artist, stunt performer, and actor who has also appeared in What We Do in the Shadows, Gen V, The Handmaid's Tale, Murderbot, The Boys, Scream VI and many other productions. She is a 5th Degree Black Belt in Taekwondo and part of the 2017 & 2018 Canadian National Taekwondo Teams. No stranger to dance herself, Laiko has over a decade of competitive dance experience. She trained at CDM (Conservatory of Dance & Music) for 10 years, was a dance Major at Earl Haig Secondary School, and has trained Ballet (RAD Intermediate), Jazz, Contemporary, Acrobatics, Lyrical, Hip Hop, and Musical Theatre. MENTIONS: Laiko IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm11346671/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk Dance/Fight with Spock: https://youtu.be/otCoTJxQ0NY?si=Km0zlGzE9mtlLbxR Pakleds (scavenger) fight scene with Pike: https://youtu.be/h1hoEoT-Vmg?si=-7yBLU5hn_af6c7b (sorry for the fan…

People in this episode

Host: Film Fights With Friends

Guest: Laiko Foroughi

Topics covered

• stunt performance
• martial arts
• dance
• Star Trek
• interview
• film analysis

Keywords

• stunt double
• dance-fight
• Star Trek
• martial arts
• Laiko Foroughi
• Christina Chong
• Taekwondo
• competitive dance
• film analysis

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, CDM (Conservatory of Dance & Music), Earl Haig Secondary School

Books & works: What We Do in the Shadows, Gen V, The Handmaid's Tale, Murderbot, The Boys, Scream VI, Dance/Fight with Spock, Pakleds (scavenger) fight scene with Pike, Strange New Worlds S3 stunts BTS video, Spock vs Kahn Fight from Star Trek: Into Darkness

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