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You obviously have like an immense amount of aura, I think, when you go out there. And in this movie, I think you kind of brought that. Like, tell me about how you really brought that to Akuma. Well, Akuma is, I mean, he's just got so much presence on his own. And that was a thing. And I mean, even too, you can see the aura, you know, floating around him. Nobody makes an entrance like him. I mean, and the whole mood changes. you can really feel the main event energy hit the movie when he comes to play. So, yeah, man, it was awesome. It really was. You couldn't have asked for a cooler character to be. From kind of the game perspective, is there anything from the games in particular that you tried to use for inspiration or bringing that to the characters? All the simple stuff. I mean, even how they hold their, you know, even when they're just, you know what I mean, standing there. Just all the little stuff, all the little movements, things like that, all the different little poses that were hit and utilized after moves were struck. So, yeah, there's a lot of things that we were able to pull from the video game. And that goes back to JV, John Belera, Katow, Sakurai, our director, and their eye and, you know, to be able to have that detail down, to be able to, like, direct us and point us in the right direction, second to none. You've got your co-star over there, Cody Rhodes, which I know you have some great history with. You guys went at it in Street Fighter, how do you think it would go? Or even not just in Street Fighter, but your characters as well? I mean in Street Fighter, Akema jobs out Guile every single time, 100%. He's got a much better, greater chance as Cody Rhodes versus Roman Reigns. But when it comes to Guile versus Akema, he's getting bitch slapped for sure. You know what I mean? Excuse my language, but that's the truth.