Meet Robert Kun, the actor bringing Kazakhstan’s action film industry to the world stage

By&nbspTomiris Bilyal

Published on 04/06/2025 - 15:00 GMT+2

In this section of Voices from Central Asia, we meet Robert Kun, an character and stunt coordinator from Kazakhstan whose travel from sports to Hollywood blockbusters is arsenic singular arsenic it is inspiring. 

He shares really he began arsenic a teenage stuntman connected Timur Bekmambetov’s Day Watch and honed his skills alongside Igor Tsay astatine Kun Do studio.  

With complete 20 years of experience, his profession took him to world sets pinch 20th Century Fox, Universal, and Disney, moving connected high-profile projects for illustration Wanted, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Ben-Hur, and Major Grom: The Game.  

Yet for Kun, existent occurrence lies not successful nan credits but successful nan family values and multicultural roots that style each task he brings to life. After years abroad, he has returned location to Kazakhstan to bring this acquisition backmost to section cinema and thief make nan country’s first action movie for world audiences.