Hi, I'm Charlize Theron.
Hey, I'm KiKi Layne.
And we are going to
take you through a scene
in our movie, shot by shot,
our great film, The Old Guard.
You don't speak Russian do you?
Why?
Because I told the pilot to play dead.
This was the first week of shooting, KiKi.
Yes it was, and I still can't believe
that they trusted my non-experienced ass
to be on a moving thing,
- I hear you, sister. - throwing punches.
I'm with you, I'm always like, "Are you guys for real?"
Sit your ass down.
Stand up.
You do not listen to her, you listen to me.
Land this plane.
This scene is in the first act of the film,
it's when we realize that there's a new one,
and it's the character of Nile.
Somebody has to go retrieve her,
and so I put myself up for the job,
and I go and retrieve her from a military unit.
You really want to do this kid?
The space really lent itself to the storytelling
of the fight, right?
So, we're stuck in a shape, a cylinder shape,
so we knew the fight was gonna
just keep moving back and forth,
and it lend itself so greatly
to the story that we're telling
in that moment, which is that this relationship
is this give and take,
it's a test.
It's giving a little bit to see
what she can do with it,
and then allowing her to kind of
move a little bit forward,
pushing her back.
It's this beautiful, physical storytelling
of really these two characters
figuring each other out.
She catches her with that right hook,
and in that moment, I feel like we see the fighter
that she is too, and that although she doesn't have
the same experience as Andy,
she has the same heart.
There was a pile of heroin bricks
that at one point, Nile’s character hits,
and they have to break open and kind of land everywhere,
and that was such a bitch to shoot.
Right, the resetting, the getting them right back
where they were.
That was a really complicated thing to shoot.
I remember your shirt being,
like, the fold of your shirt, being such an issue,
because fighting, it would like drop
and it wouldn't match,
- and you were - Right.
so into the fight
like all you wanted to do was fight
and be ready, and then somebody would be like,
- "Your shirt is undone." - "Fix your shirt!"
That was the stuff, just learning
about like, all those little details
and like, it's somebody's job to pay attention to that
and I'm just like, "If y'all don't let me
throw these punches..."
I'm glad Nile at least got a few good hits in.
Watching it again I'm like,
"Ooh, I was getting my ass whooped."
Come on Nile! Yes! Oop, nope.
We wanted to have one very specific move in it that
felt very much like something that she's done
for 6,000 years.
It's like she doesn't even flinch,
and of course they came up with this thing that
took me four months,
even on the day I think I did like 99 takes
to try and get it right.
KiKi's incredible stunt girl, Bethany,
was just so amazing, cause she just basically
stood for like two hours
and she just held my weight,
that's all she did, was just holding my weight
as I pushed myself
off her to kind of do that run.
We're done.
Did you get hurt on that?
I didn't have anything happen on that.
No, I mean outside of just our silly asses tripping
over stuff, on our own from time to time
It would be like,
in this really bad ass fighting stance,
and then you trip over like, the corner of a blanket.
More damaging for your ego
than actually really getting hurt.
I said we're done.
I feel like this set the tone for the film.
For me, it was really special because I felt
really connected to you
while we were doing this,
but especially when we were done,
I felt such a sense of accomplishment,
because the two of us just were relentless
and just didn't want to stop until this was great,
and you were unbelievable just taking hit after hit,
like that fall,
and you're just so inspiring to be around.
But this fight is really,
it's something I'm really proud of
because we really went at it.
But it's like, we had to go through that fight you know,
that had to happen for Andy and Nile
to then be able to, I don't know, have that
type of friendship and relationship
that becomes the center of the film, I feel.
It really is,
it's everything that the story really is about,
it's about not wanting to kind of give in to each other
and testing each other and pushing each other
and that's really the whole film.
But we got to actually tell that story physically
before we ever really verbally did that with each other.
Yeah.
You see, you're already healing faster.
Is this real?
Thank you for watching this Shot By Shot
And go check out our film,
The Old Guard, on Netflix.