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Ana de Armas | Stunt School | Men's Health

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00:00I remember finishing the training in LA after four months,

00:03and it was time to move to Prague.

00:05The stunt team were like, well, and we'll

00:06teach you the other half of the fights when we get there.

00:10And I'm like, what do you mean the other half of the fights?

00:12We've been training for four months.

00:14It just kept going and going and going.

00:17Hi, I'm Ana de Armas.

00:22And this is stunt school.

00:30This is ballerina.

00:32Well, in the kitchen restaurant scene,

00:34it's a scene I really like because the first part of the scene

00:37is really violent with this big guy,

00:39and she's just trying to survive, basically.

00:44And then the second part is fighting with a woman her size

00:48for the first time in the movie.

00:50It has a little bit of humor.

00:52I love the plate bit.

00:53It was really fun to shoot because the plates were meant

00:56to break, so they're very delicate.

00:58I think we went through 100 plates,

01:00and then we ended up gluing them together again

01:03because we didn't have more.

01:04I had a lot of fun with that scene.

01:06It's a place where you really see her skills,

01:08how she can just turn pretty much anything into a weapon.

01:13She's just very sharp and really going three steps ahead

01:16of everyone else and figure it out,

01:19which is something that I love about the movie.

01:21And all the John Wicks have this brutal action

01:23and gory sometimes, and you're still watching it

01:27with the smile on your face because it's so satisfying.

01:31I had a great stunt double, three of them, actually.

01:34They were for sure taking the really hard bits

01:37that I wasn't allowed because the insurance

01:40wouldn't let me do it.

01:41But for the most part, it was important for me

01:43to do as much as I could, and I did a lot.

01:47I just wanted the audiences to feel like they were really

01:49watching me and to connect with the character,

01:52and to be able to also give Len and the production the opportunity

01:56of using me from beginning to end in one take.

02:00We didn't want this kind of like choppy scenes

02:02and paste it together, trick the audiences with me and without me.

02:06And it was just like, you guys, I'm all in.

02:08I'm here.

02:09Like, you can use me.

02:11I'm going to do it.

02:12So I really enjoyed that, too.

02:15The ice skating scene, at this point,

02:17the character is really exhausted.

02:19She's just hiding.

02:20So she is getting into this boat shed that has a little frozen lake,

02:24which was real. We were actually shooting on top of frozen lake,

02:28so it was absolutely freezing.

02:30You know, again, she's using her environment to protect herself,

02:36and she finds these ice skates by accident,

02:39and she just puts them on like gloves,

02:41and she's just punching and, you know,

02:44slicing people's throats with the ice skates.

02:47But it was kind of tricky to get it all, like, perfect,

02:50so I could actually hit people in the places

02:53and the moments I wanted to.

02:55Well, I feel like sometimes people think about fights

02:58and the choreography is just between the two people

03:00that are fighting.

03:01It's more than that.

03:02It's the whole crew is involved.

03:04There is so much work,

03:05and everything has to happen at the right time

03:08so no one gets hurt.

03:09Everything is blowing up at the right time,

03:12and the camera moves at the right time.

03:13It's just like everyone is doing the choreo.

03:15I was in great hands.

03:16I was with the best team.

03:1787-11 is the same stunt team that trained Keanu

03:21for all four John Wicks.

03:22To have him on set, you know, it was really amazing

03:27because he is John Wick,

03:28and when he stepped on set with, you know, wearing the suit,

03:31he was so just unforgettable.

03:34This is our third film together,

03:35and I was such a big fan of John Wick.

03:36I met him when he had just finished the first John Wick,

03:39so it's been a very beautiful full circle for us.

03:43He's just amazing.

03:44He's a great partner.

03:46I knew we were with the right people,

03:48and they were gonna take care of me,

03:49and they were gonna gradually walk me

03:51to the place I needed to be.

03:52I literally started from learning how to do a car wheel

03:56to the most complex and challenging fight scenes

04:00that we have in the film,

04:01and I just feel myself little by little getting better,

04:04feeling more confident, in control, safe.

04:08It was really cool, fun.

04:11This is no time to die.

04:12The scene with Paloma and Bond,

04:15well, it's just so different, you know?

04:17There's this...

04:18She's so cool and bubbly and fresh.

04:21She really has no idea what she's doing.

04:24She's just trying to help and do her job, you know,

04:27the best she can.

04:28We're in the Santiago de Cuba streets,

04:30and there's this big, beautiful party

04:34until the chase starts, and she kicks ass.

04:38I didn't have the time to create the foundation

04:41that I have now with Ballerina.

04:43I was filming Blonde right before then,

04:46and I only had about three weeks to prepare for this,

04:49so, you know, I had to just, like,

04:51go straight into the choreography

04:53and do my best while in high heels and a dress.

04:57So...

04:59that's that.

05:01Okay, guys, thanks for watching,

05:02and those are some of my stunt stories.

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