Next up for the month is a more modern martial arts actor:
Michael Jai White. There ain’t too many of us brothers out there doing these
things, so Michael Jai White is kind of a rarity. He was born in Brooklyn, NY
in 1967. The dude really knows his stuff.
He first started training martial arts at age 7. He’s trained in styles
like Taekwondo, Tang Soo Do, Wushu, and Jujitsu over the years. He’s been in
action movies with guys like Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dolph Lundgren, Tony Jaa,
Scott Adkins, and a few others. He even played Mike Tyson in the HBO biopic,
Tyson, in the 90’s.
He’s been in all sorts of movies over the years, so martial
arts isn’t his only thing. He’s been in some Tyler Perry movies and TV shows.
In the geek realm, he was the voice for Doomsday on Justice League, he was in The
Dark Knight, he was Jax in Mortal Kombat Legacy, and he was Bronze Tiger on Arrow. Unfortunately, he was Spawn in
1997’s Spawn, a movie I was going to talk about today, but decided not to for
obvious reasons. Besides, I’m not a Spawn fan anyway. He kind of hit it big
with Black Dynamite, one movie I’ll be talking about today. I’ll also be
talking about Blood and Bone and Falcon Rising. I was going to add Skin Trade
to this, but I’ll skip that for now. Besides, I can only take so much on the
subject of human trafficking.