Age: 43
male
Jawed El Berni is an actor, director, stuntman, fight choreographer and martial artist. Born and raised in Paris, Jawed discovered his love for martial arts and cinema while watching Bruce Lee's "The Way of the Dragon" as a child. It inspired him to begin taking karate at the age of 6. He then passionately practiced several different styles of martial arts (with and without weapons) and boxing, e.g., Jeet Kune Do/Wing Chun, Kickboxing/Muay Thai, Parkour, Yoseikan Budo, Karate, Judo, Capoeira, and gymnastics. Weapons skills include: firearms, swords, knifes, nunchakus, and bo staff. After traveling around the world for several years, he ended up in Thailand competing in Muay Thai and working as a stuntman and actor in 2010. He landed his first lead role in the film Brawl in 2012.
The film begins with a prisoner watching from the prison bars as Jesus gets flogged in Pilate’s courtyard. He remembers Jesus' teaching about "giving to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and to God the things that are God’s." and wonders why they’re hurting an innocent man. Horrified, he remembers his own crime: he’s in an alley with a rich gentleman. Holding him up with a knife, he tries to take a box of coins and belongings. The thief is nervous so when he tries to go after the man, he fumbles. The man fights him with the box. Coins go flying. The thief accidentally stabs the man in the struggle. He claws at the coins and runs off. The flashback ends. He then breaks down in tears, aggrieved at seeing someone innocent suffer an even more brutal punishment as a criminal than himself.
