Training for Netflix's Rebel Moon with Zack Snyder

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It's time to go behind the training for the Netflix space drama movie Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire, directed by Zack Snyder.  Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire Cast:  Sofia Boutella, Charlie Hunnam, Michiel Huisman, Djimon Hounsou, Doona Bae, Ray Fisher, Cleopatra Coleman, Jena Malone, Fra Fee, Ed Skrein and Anthony Hopkins  Stream Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire now on Netflix!

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00:00 I basically put my head between my hands

00:02 and started preparing myself mentally for what was about to come.

00:06 The granary fight was so intense.

00:14 It was a nice summer night to be in pain.

00:17 Sofia's character could pick up a roll of toilet paper and kill you with it,

00:25 or an assault rifle.

00:26 In the movie, you have...

00:28 I have a knife, a hatchet...

00:30 and then using the space, remember that structure.

00:33 She used a pistol a lot, an assault rifle, and fighting hand-to-hand.

00:37 I like the idea of toilet paper.

00:39 If they make another movie, we can always get that in.

00:42 My biggest concern was how credible I would look holding the gun.

00:47 I didn't want to be off with how to walk or run with a gun,

00:50 how to hold it, how to look with it.

00:52 And I was doing everything wrong to begin with.

00:54 I do do a fair amount of weapons training myself

00:57 just because it's a good skill set to have.

00:59 Zac would keep helping me even on set

01:02 because I think until you do it every day

01:04 and you are actually on the field,

01:06 it's hard to make it seem like you've done it your whole life.

01:09 It's easy to just get distracted by the technical parts of fighting

01:13 and then sort of forget about, "Oh, what does my character feel?"

01:16 I wanted to make sure at the end of the fight I'm also in pain,

01:19 that I'm also tired, and I wanted to see the exhaustion

01:22 even though I'm having the upper hand.

01:24 We're going to have to fight.

01:26 It's choreographed, so you just do it.

01:28 It's muscle memory by the time you're shooting.

01:29 I use what I've learned as a dancer to learn this choreography.

01:33 And one of the skills that I wanted to get

01:36 is actually for it to not look like a choreography.

01:39 And I wanted to sort of look, think, make the decision, and go and do it.

01:43 And I'm always terrified to hit a real person.

01:46 Some people, they always tell you, "Hit me, it's fine. I can take it."

01:49 And I really don't like it.

01:51 Her humanity is very on point.

01:53 They always say it's fine.

01:54 And for me, I know what they take, and then they go home limping.

01:57 But they will never show you that they're limping.

01:59 It can be very tedious, can be very hard.

02:02 But when you do it with a team that's so well-trained,

02:05 it was a joy shooting every fight scene on this

02:08 because when people really know what they're doing,

02:10 it makes it so enjoyable.

02:12 But it can be tiring and dangerous.

02:15 It was so much fun to explore.

02:16 Watch Rebel Moon only on Netflix.

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