When London-born Lewis Tan was a year old, his Chinese/Singaporean martial artist-actor dad moved the family to LA to coordinate the fights for Tim Burton’s “Batman.”

Now 38, Tan stars as an endangered federal agent in the LA-set thriller “Safe House.”

Tan, whose mother was an English model, calls it “Reservoir Dogs” meets “Die Hard.”

“The movie opens on a terrorist attack in downtown LA,” he explained on Zoom, adding, “We actually shot this in downtown LA too, which is a rare treat.

The assault means five government officials, “Including my Secret Service agent and other areas of government, are stuck in a safe house where they realize while waiting for their next command, that maybe one of them is part of the terrorists. A rat.

“As they try to discover who that is, more terrorists attack” – and the safe house is hardly safe.

As to who that rat might be, “The more you watch, the more hints you get to where everybody is coming from. So, it’s unique story with a very sharp, well-written script.

“That’s why I wanted to do it. I’ve been doing a lot of action/fantasy stuff like ‘Mortal Kombat.’ This feels very grounded.”

“Safe House” begins with a statement: After 9/11, a national Weapons of Mass Destruction code – W P M – was instituted.

It becomes a major plot point. “That’s not fiction,” Tan said. “There is such a thing, a ‘football’ – a device that carries certain codes that the president will have on him in case he needs to launch a nuclear attack or defend the country in some way.

“I believe the vice president and the president are the ones that carry these. I don’t know if it’s just them or obviously their team and the Secret Service agents around them.

“But yeah, that’s a legit thing. Kind of scary, isn’t it?”

As someone who was literally born into the business, did Tan ever feel he had a choice about his life?

“That’s so funny. My parents were very supportive, but also reluctant. Growing up around movie sets it’s hard to not be enamored by that because I do think cinema’s the best, most powerful, most worldwide art form.

“I know there’s this idea, ‘My dad is in the business, so it must be easy.’

“It was not easy for me at all in any way possible. He doesn’t have any say in the acting world. He taught me a lot about martial arts, action and what it means to make a good action movie.

“But I had to scratch and crawl from one line all the way to a lead in a movie. That took me about 12 years.”

“Safe House” is available on streaming platforms