okay come forward a bit
yeah okay when you ready ready
okay action
man what's going in i was looking for a
kind of sword fighting that was
reminiscent of what was in the movies
that we'd already done but a more
energized version of it
because we'd actually never seen real
jedis at work we'd only seen
you know old men and crippled half droid
half men and young boys that had learned
from these people
so to see a jedi fighting in the prime
of the jedi i wanted to be a much more
energetic and and faster version of what
we've been doing
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geez dude i'm nick gillard i'm the stunt
coordinator
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when i was 12 i was sent to military
school which i
hated so i left and ran away to the
circus
i got on the stump register when i was
18.
if you get caught on your toes just step
back and then go in
just try that
i'd love to get nick gillard
on episode there's no room for error in
any of the fights
you won't see it because they're so fast
but if you slow them down and freeze
frame them
they can only parry there it can only
attack there
the moves are so natural or so correct
it's the only place they can be
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since they had chosen such a short-range
weapon
they would have to be so good if they're
up against ray guns and lasers
so they would have studied every great
sword fighting style
and come up with a kind of mixture of
kendo and samurai and
every sword style there's ever been you
know a bit of tennis and a bit tree
chopping
everything that you could swing at
you can clock it super fast right like
that
so as he as he comes in there you go
well that's good because we've never
done
when we train actors we would write a
fight that made to be a minute long
but that'll be in five or six sections
of
six or seven moves only so then we just
go through really
very slowly and then just start picking
up the pace
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they don't make light sabers like they
used to
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we shot a test fight to set this style
this sort of jedi style
i wrote it very much like a game of
chess played at a thousand miles an hour
and every single move is a check there's
only one way out of it
jedi are like negotiators they aren't
people who go out and blow up planets
they aren't people that
shoot down things they're more of a
one-to-one combat type
so i just want the form of fighting and
the role of the jedi knight to be
special and more spiritual
and more intellectual
than just a fighter or a superhero or
something like that
that's crazy man i guess i guess ray
park got whacked in the eye when he was
training me he's going pretty hard there
he's going pretty crazy