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Iko Uwais had trained together with the other fighters for 6 months, so that they would meet every day and build that mutual trust before shooting the fight scenes, so that when one of them missed, they wouldn't want to punch back harder.
All the punches and kicks to the body of the actors were real. Iko Uwais and the other fighters had to learn how to control their speed and strength so that it would look real on the camera.
The final epic kitchen fight scene took 8 days to film and contains 195 shots and is a favorite of the director Gareth Evans.
Takes place two hours after first film ended and then two years later.
Originally, Berandal was written before The Raid: Redemption (2011). When funding fell through for Berandal, Gareth Evans (director) decided to do a film that required a lower budget that would eventually become the first movie.