On BBC2 yesterday, they showed a programme called "I Love Kung Fu", looking at how Kung Fu had affected our culture since the 70s. Ray Park was on talking about Episode I.

Here's what Ray Park had to say:

"I just remember seeing this picture of this character, standing there with double ended light saber, all in black, and I thought, yeah, I have to do this part, this part is for me.

The stunt co-ordinator, I got a phone call from him, he asked me to come down, and we just had a chat, and he wrote a fight to show George Lucas."

(They showed storyboards of the fight Nick Gillard wrote, and then scenes from the fight they filmed)

"I was just pulled down for the week, just to rehearse it, and then we were going to shoot it at the end of the week and show George, and see if he liked it."

(Then they showed Nick and Ray creating moves for Episode I against a blue screen)

"I started Kung Fu to get into movies because I was sort of fascinated by all this, the martial arts movies. I watched all like the 36th Chamber of Shaolin, to the Ninjas vs Shaolin, you know, movies like that. I wanted to get in and do that sort of stuff."

(They then showed the Maul/Qui Gon/Obi Wan fight scenes from Episode I with Public Enemy's "Fight the Power" in the background, which was very effective)

"The light saber fights, I used techniques from the Bo Staff and Wushu de (de/do/du?) Cudgel. I used to specialize in the Cudgel routine in competition, so all the flowery movements and the spinning; I brought that from the Cudgel.

He's that cocky, and that confident, but that skilful, that he could be flowery, and in between each move he can do like a 'spin spin spin' in before it, but it's just showing his arrogance."