When you train with these guys who
trained Keanu Reeves for John Wick,
it seems like you're breaking your thumbs.
You're breaking your ribs.
The training is intense and I'm,
and I'm like,
I thought there's stunt
people for that stuff?
Why are you damaging yourself?
I,
well,
you don't set out to do that.
And it's very,
it is very rare.
I have to say.
I mean,
I meant,
and even the thumb injury wasn't that bad.
Like even if a stunt person did this,
it wouldn't have helped.
I grabbed onto a guy and my
thumb got stuck in his like
wardrobe and he turned and he just
kind of bent my thumb back with him.
So I tore the ligament off the bone.
And then I remembered the first action
movie I ever did was a film called Aeon
Flux.
And I hurt myself actually pretty bad on
that because there was a level of like,
we want you to be crazy supple because
this animated character that's not even
real,
is like,
you know,
constantly in the splits or like,
you know,
in backbends.
And I was like,
it's not,
I can't do that.
So they put me with these Cirque
du Soleil people who were lovely,
but they were double jointed and weird.
And I was like,
I have three months,
like I'm not going to be able to like,
you know,
smell my own asshole in a backbend.
It's not going to happen.
So let's find something that I can do.
But in Aeon Flux,
you almost got paralyzed.
You fell on your head or something,
trying to do one of these stunts.
You know why?
Because I have no business
doing backhand springs.
I'm not a gymnast.
You're not going to learn
that in three months.
So this,
I think now for me,
it's all about having the right team.
You don't need a stunt person
to step in and do something.
You create it to be
something that you can do.
And that's what makes it fun.
When you have choreography that is there
to celebrate you as an actor to tell
the story,
not like make,
have a stunt person step
in to make you look good.
It's like,
we're telling a story,
the actors doing it,
they've worked for four months.
It's like rehearsal.
They know exactly what they're doing.
That's fucking awesome.
When you can do that.
When you count up the box office,
you're now one of the
number one action stars.
For years,
you know,
it was somewhat frustrating for me
as a woman because I like the genre.
I like watching these movies.
Like I grew up,
my mom loved Chuck Norris
and Charles Bronson.
And like,
it makes me feel,
you know,
it makes me feel good about just knowing
that we've changed that industry as
a whole,
like,
I feel like the genre has definitely had
a facelift and I feel like women have
been a huge part in that.
Like,
I feel like women have kind of like
stepped up in the genre and made it fun
again and,
and not made it just part of this
one conversation when just like,
Oh,
well,
women can't fight like men.
Well,
we don't want to fucking fight like men.
We want to fight.
Like we would fight.
