'In My Brain Forever' Ana De Armas Cried And Walked Away From One Of John Wick's Action Scenes Because It Was Too Much #shorts

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Ana de Armas cried the first time she used a flamethrower during "Ballerina," but quickly got over it to film one of the movie's most epic action scenes.

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00:00I had to, like, drop it, and I walked away, and I had to unzip my thing and just cry.

00:05It was really emotional.

00:06It was just a visual, horrible thing, too, you know.

00:09It's in my brain forever, you know.

00:11But everyone was safe, and I knew that, and, you know, I got comfortable with it afterwards,

00:17and then I burned 105 people after.

00:19I heard that you cried the first time that you set someone on fire doing that flamethrower sequence,

00:25which is incredible, by the way.

00:27I was wondering if you could kind of talk about that a little bit,

00:29because I never really thought about the emotional toll that some of the action takes on you,

00:33just as, like, a person.

00:34Yeah, I think it's, you know, for the most part, the training is more focused on the fights,

00:41you know, the physical fights and the choreos and knives and guns and all that.

00:46But I never got to practice with a flamethrower, and I definitely had the fire.

00:51It's a scary thing.

00:53And I remember they asked me to rehearse the day before filming, and I was like,

00:56no, that's not necessary.

00:58I'll just do it on the day.

00:58And they were like, no, no, you really need to just feel it and the heat on your face

01:04and everything, how it moves.

01:06And I did it.

01:07And I knew I was with the best people in the business, like, just doing fire.

01:12But still, when I shot that, you know, this guy, and he got on fire, I was...

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