Lim Yu-Beng On Family Reactions To His [Spoiler] Scene In Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon; Teases Upcoming “Sweet, Adorable” US Project

SPOILER ALERT: This article mentions plot points, including the fate of a character in Rebel Moon — Chapter 1: Chalice of Blood.

Back in December 2023, 8days was really stoked about speaking to Singaporean actor-singer Lim Yu-Beng about his latest project: Rebel Moon, Netflix’s highly-anticipated sci-fi magnum opus from Man of Steel director Zack Snyder. 

Inspired by Snyder’s love for George Lucas’ Star Wars and Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai, Rebel Moon follows two farmers on the agrarian moon Veldt (Sofia Boutella and Michiel Huisman) as they enlist a motley crew of badass freedom fighters (Djimon Honsou, Charlie Hunnam, Ray Fisher, Bae Donna, Cleopatra Coleman and E Duffy) to help defend their town against the Motherworld — Space Nazis! — where Ed Skrein (Deadpool) serves as its unflinchingly sociopathic emissary Atticus Noble (trust me, there’s nothing noble about him).

The tale is so epic that it’s split into two instalments, Part 1: A Child of Fire, and Part 2: The Scargiver. Per IMDB, Yu-Beng plays a character named Heron and very little is known about him then.

And it would stay that way for a while: A Child of Fire dropped on December 22 but Yu-Beng’s footage was all left on the cutting room floor (even though he was briefly in the trailer), at least in this initial milder, shorter, and family-friendly iteration.

Cue to eight months later, August 2 to be precise, Heron, sorry, King Heron, finally sees the light of day in the longer, bloodier, more bonkers director’s cut of the saga, now rechristened Chapter 1: Chalice of Blood and Chapter 2: Cure of Forgiveness.

With that, balance is finally restored in the universe and everyone can rejoice and get back to their lives. “Well, thank you very much, first of all, for that sentiment,” Yu-Beng, 58, tells me over Zoom.

Yu-Beng is no stranger to American productions. He’d also appeared in the Chow Yun-Fat-Jodie Foster-led historical epic Anna and the King, the David Carradine-starring Kung Fu Killer, and an episode of martial arts crime drama Max series Warrior.

The only difference is “[Rebel Moon] was the first one that was actually shot on US soil [in Los Angeles],” he adds.