- Hey! - Hey! What's up?
How you doing?
- Hey mom! - Good Lord.
You've got to back up.
Action!
Hi! I'm Javicia Leslie
and I have my brother, Donnie,
and my mom, Jaque,
and my dog, Judah.
We started filming Batwoman about four or five months ago, now.
Honestly, even before I got the role,
I had a conversation with the executive producer
and she said: "How do you feel about stunts?"
So I send her this compilation of, like, me doing all of these, like,
fitness things and stunts and, like, my Muay Thai fighting,
my bo staff fighting.
My brother is actually a Muay Thai trainer,
so we're going to, kind of, take this on
a virtual session.
I need to sit out and the workout ain't even started!
How's everyone feeling so far?
[screams and laughs]
At the moment, my brother is in Montana
and my mom is based in my hometown, Upper Marlboro, Maryland.
Muay Thai's all about rhythm. We're always moving, never standing still.
So, I just want you guys to just get a nice little rock.
They wanted to be able to shoot Batwoman doing her own stunts.
So, going into the second season,
there will be a lot of stunts done by yours truly.
I get to fly, basically.
Last Friday, I went up 50 feet
and I could see all of Vancouver.
And it was just so fricking epic and all I could think is, like:
"Wow. This is my life."
All right. 3 o'clock.
Good, Vici.
Turn all the way over, mom.
That's not right! [Laughter]
My brother started training when I was pretty much a kid
and so, now that I train, we have that similarity.
And he'll watch videos that I put on Instagram and he'll call me and say:
"That was good, but you have to make sure you turn your foot and all."
No. Mom. No! [laughs]
[laughs]
When I was a kid, I would walk past my brother
and my brother would, like, do, like some type of fight move
to, like, disengage me.
and I would fall down, like: "Why do you keep doing this?"
And so, now that I'm older and I train as much as I do,
I do that on set.
I walk up to a crew member and just be like...
All right! All right, 2-3-2.
Good, Vici. And 5-2-3.
Vici was always in front of people.
She doesn't have a problem with communicating.
Ever since she was a kid, she's been acting.
She's one of those kids
- that would start crying on demand, - Wait a minute!
and, as soon as you get in trouble for doing something,
- she stops crying. - Are you serious?
This is messed up.
My relationship with my mom...
We're really close, so we're kind of like girlfriends and we're hanging out.
I work a lot, so I can't actually jump on a FaceTime call
sometimes throughout the day, so she'll send me actual videos of her.
You're going to bring it straight up and then straight out.
Ok, so up, out!
Yes, good.
Now that I can't see my family as much,
I definitely think we do more video calls than we do regular calls.
Donnie used to do things to get in trouble all the time
and I took the brunt of it.
Just like when you broke the knob on the TV!
But that's old though. 75 00:03:24,233 --> 00:03:25,933 I still didn't tell mommy the whole truth.
Why you got to go there?
When I say "six", we're going to go left-right.
So, left.
All right.
All right? Go.
Good! Let me see it, mom. Good.
So, now I want you to do a 1-2-3 rear knee.
All right now, Foxxy Cleopatra.
Left.
Right.
Hook.
Knee.
Good job, mom! That was really good.
Like a video game character, like she about to beat somebody up.
Yeah, mom!
I was actually born in Germany because both my parents were in the army.
Then, when we moved from Germany,
my mother wanted to basically be able to
be home more with my brother and I, so she switched to reserves.
You know, she's here. She's able to spend time with us
and what's even crazier
is that my mom went to Afghanistan twice for us,
so that we were able to
follow our dreams and have some kind of financial support.
All right, Donnie. You and mommy watch me. What do you want me to do?
Do a... Do 1-2 push kick.
Push kick to the stomach, where the stomach is.
There we go. Good, good.
You're looking good!
- All right, Vici! - That was really good.
This is crazy. I think that Muay Thai is probably
a bit more difficult to teach virtually,
but you did such a great job, like...
We didn't go to the full pro workout, though.
I feel like I've been riding all morning and working out all evening.
Mom, Donnie, I'll literally see you guys in two weeks!
Can't wait to see you guys. Love you all. Bye!
Bye.
Hi Vogue! I'm Javicia Leslie.
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