- Hi, I'm Mary Elizabeth Winstead.
- And I am Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, the director of the film.
- Today, we're gonna take you through a scene in Kate,
shot by shot.
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So, here we are at Jojima's penthouse.
We've been trying to track him down.
He's like really scary once he gets going in a fight.
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- Kate loses her weapon. So, they're really...
basically what I have to do
is just use whatever is available to me
in his super fancy kitchen: the kitchen knives,
the wine glass
- Everything and the kitchen sink.
- The coffee grinder. I love the coffee grinder!
- You know how you go into a department store
and you look at the kitchen area where they sell everything?
And I remember looking around and being like,
'could that be a weapon? Could that be a weapon?'
The espresso machine, I remember taking it off
and looking at that and being like "oh yeah, that'll hurt."
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- There's just something so raw about that,
about not having anything to fight with
and just going for it with whatever is at your disposal.
- And that was always the first fight we shot.
- Yes, this was the first fight.
- The first fight scene.
They were the most raw and the first one.
- [Mary Elizabeth] Yes.
- Every scene in the film has to be different,
so this one was to be a very raw, very brutal,
where Kate really reaches out.
The knives were a little too obvious,
so we had to come up with something else.
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(glass shatters)
(screams)
And you were just going at it. You see her.
(imitates screaming)
And Miyavi was taking it and he was like a champ.
Like, just this. Oh my god.
- I think we were both, you know,
cause we both really wanted it to be really real,
and to really go for it.
And when we both saw each other going for it in that way,
then we wanted to be like, OK,
if you're gonna go for it, I'm gonna go for it.
- Yeah.
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(glass shatters)
(yells)
(screams)
- So let's talk about those headbutts a little bit there,
because, you know, that was like,
that was intensity for real.
- He really headbutted me for real.
It was just was one of those things.
We were looking at each other,
it was this moment where he's looking at me,
just like with this intensity. So we were in that moment,
and then he just throws his head back,
headbutts me and it was supposed to be, you know,
you stop before you really get there.
But we were both so in it,
that he just full on headbutted me.
We were both like, OK,
we're gonna go for it. We're gonna get,
it's gonna be a bit of a scrap, you know, we'll see,
we'll see what happens.
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- So that's where my kind of background in visual effects
comes in handy a little bit.
Now, what we did is like we replaced the blade in CGI.
So the blade looks, looks rigid,
but it's really how Mary sells it when that happens.
So, so it pushes, it pushes it on her cheek.
She feels it. You felt it, but it didn't hurt,
but that's the intensity of the sale.
- Imagining that.
- Yeah.
- You can imagine that would be pretty painful.
You know, if that was going into your face.
So you just have to go there.
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- This is where, where Kate really finds herself at odds
with her initial revenge kind of vibe,
and in it you show anger,
and now she finds herself at odds with that.
And so it was a very pivotal scene.
I mean, it's definitely like a favorite scene.
- Yeah. I love it.
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(speaks foreign language)
Check out Kate now streaming on Netflix.
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