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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,
01:03and the heat on your face and everything, how it moves.
01:06And I did it, and I knew I was with the best people in the business,
01:10like, just doing fire.
01:12But still, when I shot that, you know, this guy, and he got on fire, I was...
01:18...the sound, when I saw that, I see there, and I saw it, and I saw it, even when I saw it, it was good for you.

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