Elodie Yung

“I'm a girl, so I didn't really know about 'G.I. Joe' as a kid. I didn't watch the show.”

“We can list a bunch of actors who have embodied characters that aren't their nationalities, and I think that's the beauty of acting.”

“I got 'Elektra: Assassin,' and that's where I learned that she was a tortured soul. She's been through a lot and was possibly psychologically unstable.”

“I never do things fearing I could do right or wrong. I just do it because I just follow my guts. This is really how I did it for 'Elektra' because I was just amazed by all the comics. I was good for me to get inspired by them, and I just follow my guts for the rest.”

“I've done some movies before when you have months, or three weeks at least, to train and to learn choreography.”

“That's the Elektra I tried to portray: one that's always in the grey. She is a tortured soul.”

“I would love to appear in 'The Defenders.' I don't know - because hopefully she'll maybe be on the bad side. I don't know - I don't know what they'd do with Elektra in 'The Defenders,' but that would be a good dynamic, I think - to be confronted by these four superheroes, and I think it would be interesting - I'd be curious to see what they do.”

“Elektra met Matt, and she fell in love with him. And I think he brought some good out of her at some point in her life, and maybe she wants to figure out, by coming back to him, who she really is. She comes back because she misses him, and she's alone, and the only person she's ever loved is Matt.”

“I wanted to have some disdain in the way that she fights sometimes, because I think Elektra is a bit careless, like, 'You're in my way - get out.'”

“No, I'm not a student of Snake Eyes, but we trained in the same dojo.”

“Elektra isn't a villain and isn't a good girl, but as Frank Miller said, she is one of the villains with a weak streak in them, and that's a failure that I tried to explore.”

“I've experienced all the food and restaurants in New Orleans. I've been doing a bit of touristing when I have the day off, just walking in the French Quarter. To me, it's very, very surprising how people are so friendly. But no, it's very different from Paris.”

“I don't see myself as exotic.”

“Having my own show - it's not something that I think of. It's not.”

“I think acting is a work of imagination.”

“I'm a black belt in karate. I grew up on the outskirts of Paris, and it was rough.”

“I did a bit of karate - I'm a blackbelt - so I know how to move.”

“I do feel privileged to play Elektra, because definitely she is a strong female character. She's a strong character. It would be nice if eventually we'd just say she's a strong character, not a strong female character.”

“It's been great to travel because I really enjoyed being 'Elektra', so it's not a problem talking about it.”

“You can't identify 100% with your character.”