Hello.
Very nice to meet you.
And congratulations on what I've seen of this season so far.
I'm sure you're going
to be going out on a high because I know you're still filming at the moment.
Lauren, I think superpowers are sort of your specialty
because Toni sees being that as a superpower.
And of course, you were an eternals as .
Makkari So I wondered
if Connie had Makkari's super speed in The Walking Dead.
How would that have helped her and everybody else in the show as well?
Oh, I love that question.
If Connie had Makkari's super speed, I think all the walkers
would have been wiped out years ago.
How? She picked them off one by one quickly, just like she did with the deed,
just push her way through all the villains
and then rebuild each community instantly.
Basically, she would have saved the world and the show would have been over
several seasons ago, but which is not fun.
So it would have been over a long shot.
So. So Ross
Aaron's got a bit of a superpower as well really, hasn't it,
with that prosthetic arm, And I wondered how easy or not it is for you to work with
because it's a bit unique and it looks kind of vicious.
It's it is vicious.
It's not as cool as Makkari, though.
I will say it's one of my favorite scenes in Eternals
is when Makkari is darting around and beating the crap out of Icarus.
That's one of my favorite scenes in that movie.
Yeah. It's it's unwieldy.
I mean, it's it's a thing you've got to kind of squeeze your thumb up like this.
To, to fit it on there.
And the metal one is about
five kilograms or so.
And I think that's the right conversion, but about 10 to 15lbs
and it definitely starts to hurt after a while after you swing it around.
But the one I use most of the time is kind of a rubber synthetic
and that's a little bit lighter.
But as uncomfortable as it is,
I love putting it on because it's
such a great appendage and great, as you said,
like kind of superpower for, for Aaron because I think he's turned his
handicap into something that is really quite powerful.
And I think it's a it's a beautiful metaphor for him as a person.
All the loss he's had, both physically and emotionally,
he's turned that into something that makes him stronger.
And I love that.
I love that for him.
And I love that for the show.
And it's a very physically demanding show
with so much action, with so many fights
Lauren, I wondered what sort of training or preparation
you had to do for the action sequences?
Well, I don't say usually we have a few training
sessions, right, for just to prepare for an episode.
When I first started the very first season that I appeared as Connie.
I definitely had several training sessions by using the same slingshot.
And I remember practicing, you know, I got a bull's eye.
I mean, I'm pretty good. I just have it in me.
And actually the at the Slingshot every time Bullseye.
But we also had to do horseback riding training.
And it's definitely safety is one of the main focuses on The Walking Dead.
As you said, it's very physically challenging to be a part of that world.
And there's a lot of us do our own stunts.
So safety is critical.
And the best way to actually be safe is to practice and develop those specific
skill sets.
So are you one of the people that does your own stunts?
Yeah, pretty much.
Yeah.
Yeah, I do a lot of them, not all of them, but I do a lot of I don't know
if you remember the cave sequence.
So we had to actually jump over the boulders in the cave.
I think that you make it sound so easy.
What can I say, Ross?
That we know that
the show is coming to an end, and I'm sure you're going to end on a high.
And there's been lots of talk about possible spin offs.
But let's face it, everybody loves sequels.
Nowadays, so if it turned out that there was going to be a sequel,
would you want to come back maybe playing an old version of Aaron?
Oh, yeah.
I mean, I think one of my favorite is when you can you say older version.
I think what they did with Wolverine
and Logan was like my one of my favorite
spin or spin offs or iterations of a character.
And I think seeing him a little bit older, a little bit more wizened,
maybe Gracie has grown up a little bit.
I think that would be an amazing show.
So, yeah, I would I would love to come back and do that.
Let's keep our fingers crossed for that.
It's been lovely to meet you both
you very much for your time, and thanks for such a great show as well.
Thank you very much. Thank you.
Thank you.
Thanks for your questions. It's fun. Thank you.