[Tribal Warfare]

Snake Eyes star Henry Golding defends showing the character's face under the mask.

"But behind the mask, he's a guy. He's a human... We need to be able to see that in his eyes and, wearing a mask, sometimes we just aren't able to put that across." https://t.co/iseyYYRl2d pic.twitter.com/sxJaFXrBNI

— Screen Rant (@screenrant) May 18, 2021

Henry Golding: I think it's the building of his background and the building of his true origin. And understanding that to know a man is to know his past and the footprints he had to make to get to where he got.

It was so important to set the standard and set the basis of [him]. If we were to go the next 5 or 6 films with just his mask on, we all know who Snake Eyes is. And that was what was so important. People complaining that, "Ahh! We see his face!" Well, he didn't come out of his mother's belly with a mask on and whatnot. Who's to say we won't go the entire rest of the movies [like that]?

But behind the mask, he's a guy. He's a human; he has love interests, he has failures in life, he has mistakes that he's made, and he has forgiveness in his heart for the things that perhaps he thought he'd never be able to forgive himself for. We need to be able to see that in his eyes and, wearing a mask, sometimes we just aren't able to put that across