
The film premiered in April 2021 in theaters and on HBO Max. In July 2019, Taslim was cast as Sub-Zero in the Mortal Kombat reboot. He played Li Yong, a Long Zii enforcer and secretly Mai Ling's lover. In 2017, Taslim was cast in the role of Li Yong in the Cinemax action series, Warrior. In 2016, he played an antagonist character, Manas, a former first officer of Captain Balthazar Edison (played by Idris Elba), Anderson Le, turned into an alien in Star Trek Beyond. The film was eventually released by Netflix on 19 October 2018. In September 2014, pre-production on the film was halted and the script was instead adapted as a graphic novel. In May 2013, it was reported that Taslim would star in the action thriller The Night Comes for Us. The Raid Redemption 2011 team becomes trapped in a tenement run by a ruthless mobster and his army of killers and thugs.Stars: Iko Uwais, Ananda George, Ray. Taslim appeared in the feature film Fast & Furious 6 (2013), as the villainous Jah, a mercenary who uses his martial arts to fight two of the film's protagonists, Roman Pearce (Tyrese Gibson) and Han Seoul-Oh (Sung Kang).
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In 2010, he won the role of Jaka, a sergeant in a special police squad, in the award-winning The Raid, after a series of fight auditions and reading.įollowing The Raid, Taslim took part in HBO Asia's first action horror film, Dead Mine, which had a theatrical release in selected Asian territories in September 2012, followed by exclusive television premieres across the HBO Asia network. Taslim retired from judo in his late 20s to pursue acting. Taslim is active as a model and actor, appearing in magazines, TV commercials and several Indonesian feature films. He is of Chinese and Palembangese descent.
