I'm not sure who hired you I can't tell I hired Hallie or she hired
You know
He should not be telling people that
so we put the word out like look we're looking for someone that really
Believed in the acting side of it and who was willing to give us a time to train her to be a little bit more
On the action side of things. I wanted the transformation I
Just said what can I go in and talk to him?
cuz I think he's just amazing and I just want to tell him that I'm gonna do this movie and I just want him to
Meet me because I think you should meet
It was right after Christmas as we were prepping the show
I got a knock on the office door and it was happy. He my guy she's like hi
I'm aliens like I know who you are
And I told him I said I just love this and I said I really want to do it
So if you haven't written it, why don't you think about writing it for me?
cuz I
promise you like I'll kill it and then a few days later I left there and he called back and he said okay, I
Want you to kill it just know you're not gonna have a life for about six eight nine months, and it's not fun
It's fun for like the first week and then it's the diet the physical training, you know
We have this idea we want to do with dogs and farms
I see great sign me up. Some people say they want to do John wick training and then it starts and then they're like
Oh, this is John wick training. And when Halle Berry said she wanted to do that Chadwick said here you go and
Halle said thank you, sir. Can I please have some more?
Probably the hardest six seven months. I think I've experienced in my professional life
8711 is like a place you've never seen there's so many stunt men and women there and they're all of the Chad world
Which is you work hard you don't quit you
Don't rest much and if you hurt so what you just come back and you do it again tomorrow. There's no room for complaining
It's just put your head down and do the work
She did a great job lots of punching kicking throwing guys in the air all sorts of good stuff
Heidi moneymaker, I think see was the key for me because when I first started training Chad was in New York with Keanu and
Heidi was my lifeline, and she started my training. We're really lucky that one Halle has been very athletic or whole life
I was a gymnast as a kid
So all of this just allows me to sort of use all those things that I used to know some stuff
I still know some stuff. I'm having to learn over again and to she's such a hard worker
You have to start everyone at the beginning and give them a really basic foundation. And that's what we've done with her
But she pick stuff up really fast. And if she doesn't she'll stay in it until she does. I would just not quit
I don't think she ever missed a workout in the five months
I learned judo Jiu Jitsu gun foo hand foot combat
The hardest part is one stamina, you know, sometimes we're in here for hours and just non-stop for me
so it's about making sure I'm eating right is saying hydrated because when you get really tired you lose the to think and remember and
nobody wants to get injured so it's about just trying to keep my energy level up for that long because I really want to get
it
There's always been a strong female character in the John wick films which I love this time
Her style is really similar to John wick. They kind of come from the same place
She's a real assassin and she's coming in here and she's spending weeks and weeks and weeks
Training to become like John wicks
I had to learn to fight one life piano and I had to learn to fight with him in very close proximity
And I think that was new for Keanu too because he was used to doing it all by himself
When I come into the movie
He has a partner
that he's fighting with this trained very much like him things that he's really good at I had to learn how to do but it
Has a lot of a female-driven spark to it and I'm always thinking at my size. How could I actually take this guy down?
So that's kind of what we've done with Hallie is like, okay
here's a bunch of cool throws and what would actually work in a bar if I had to actually take down a guy so that's
Kind of what we've done is gone back and tried to figure out what a smaller woman could do to these big tall
Six foot four guys and really actually in real life take them down
Things that just not only are they needed for this movie, but they will serve me in life
She's been doing great with the gun foo. She's been doing great out at the range. Do you know with live rounds?
I don't think she really likes guns in the first place
The first session I had I literally broke out in hives. I was so uncomfortable
Holding something so powerful and and a bit afraid of it what helped me was
I connect her through the thought that while I'll never own a gun
I have two small children, and if someone ever pulled a gun on me
Now I would know what to do with it
If I was lucky enough to get it away from them, you know
And with all of my other donal of training I might get it away and when I get it
I have to know what to do with it in order to say, you know my family
so once I connected to that was the reason I was doing this training then failed and I realized my first day of
shooting that having trained for six months was
Essential in getting through this process and not blowing up the place
They're willing to put in the time to become the character nearly worked really hard for months and months
It's just taking that time to constantly hone your skills create new ones just move on from there
And now I think I have the bug like I just want to keep going and going and going