Star Wars: The Force Awakens - 9 New Cast Members' Best Roles So Far

8. Iko Uwais - The Raid 2

There are not one, but three actors from Gareth Evans's indecently entertaining The Raid films - Iko Uwais, Cecep Arif Rahman and Yayan Ruhian - making appearances in The Force Awakens. It hasn't been revealed as yet who exactly the trio will play, but you can guarantee JJ Abrams was watching him some Indonesian action movie when he decided that what his film needed was a martial arts boost. Of the three, Iko Uwais is undoubtedly the biggest selling point; though Rahman and Ruhian show off some ridiculous man-killing moves in The Raid and The Raid 2, it's Uwais who's had to carry both films. And not just as a fight star - Uwais is the real deal, a fabled successful combination of physical mastery and dramatic performing. Though both Raid movies show off Uwais's moves, he emerges most triumphantly from The Raid 2, where he's required not just to do his own stunts for car chases, close-quarters scuffles and epic battles, but actually do some acting as well. Uwais seemingly won't have a large part in The Force Awakens, but it's a deserved big step for someone who is quite possibly this generation's Bruce Lee