- [Narrator] Watch your head.
That double-sided ax is called a Labrys,
and in Ancient Crete,
they were only wielded by female goddesses.
That was the first of 21 facts about
and inspired by "The Old Guard."
To keep you on your toes, we snuck in one lie.
We'll reveal it at the end.
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- Who are you?
- Andromache the Scythian.
(Nile grunts) (thumps)
But you can call me Andy.
- [Narrator] Andromache means fighter of men in Greek,
but let's just stick with Andy.
The film, "The Old Guard" is adapted from a comic book
of the same name.
- You really wanna do this, kid?
(grunting)
- [Narrator] They always tell you to start with
the hard stuff, right?
The fist fight on the plane was the very first scene
the production team captured.
The stunt team paid attention to the smallest details.
Since Nile is younger than Andy,
she has a grittier, MMA-based fighting style,
and younger is a bit of an understatement.
After more than 6,000 years,
Andy's been in quite a few fights.
In this photo, Andy is on the front lines
of the American Civil War,
as a participant in the Battle of Cold Harbor,
which claimed over 2,000 lives.
In the film, Andy is a big fan of baklava,
whose dough is named after the Greek word phyllo,
which means leaf.
With stunts like this, you can't just climb off the couch
and walk on set.
Theron trained for months before the cameras rolled.
- (screams) Fuck!
- [Narrator] A film with kick-ass women on screen
needs kick-ass women off screen.
Director Prince-Bythewood did just that
by hiring female department heads,
and all those quick-cutting action sequences
are courtesy of editor Terilyn Shropshire,
who has worked on every one of Prince-Bythewood's films.
(shouting) (gun firing)
In addition to the intense fight training,
Theron worked with Jade Struck,
a three-gun national champion competitive shooter.
- (sighs) Actually everything hurts.
- [Narrator] These kind of stunts can certainly take a toll.
Theron injured herself during shooting,
but she fought through the pain
to finish the final three weeks of production.
- You say there were others.
How many?
- [Andy] Four.
- [Narrator] A four-person army is pretty tiny.
But in reality, the smallest army in the world
is the Swiss Guard, with only 110 members.
Armies use weapons, and one of the most popular accessories
is the holographic sight,
which was introduced in 1978 at a trade show.
Bonus fact, the average holographic sight can run
for about 600 hours before needing its batteries replaced.
These aren't the brightest flashlights in the world,
but the MS18 is.
It has a max output of 100,000 lumens.
That's over 80 times the brightness
of your car's high beam headlights.
"The Old Guard" spans multiple countries and locations.
One of them is Jemaa el-Fnaa, Morocco's largest market.
- I'm still deciding.
- [Narrator] This particular scene was filmed
in the Prospect of Whitby,
which claims to be the oldest riverside tavern in the world.
- This place has been abandoned for 50 years.
- [Narrator] "The Old Guard" hideaway is the town
of Goussainville-Vieux Pays,
which was abandoned by its residence due to loud
and low flying airplanes.
Nile has nothing to worry about here,
but the average mortal would.
With temperatures as high as 930 degrees fahrenheit,
campfires are hot enough to do major damage
to the human hand, and always catch my marshmallow on fire,
just like I like it.
#TeamCrispy.
- [Doctor] If we can unlock their genetic code,
the world will be begging us for the key.
- [Narrator] Our genetic code is really complicated.
Researchers estimate that if unraveled,
we could each have over 110 billion miles of DNA strands,
a distance which could stretch
to the sun and back hundreds of times.
- [Man] This is only what I found going back
the last 150 years or so.
- [Narrator] You've seen it in every
serial killer hunting movie that's ever been made,
but do you know the name of this type of board?
It's called a sociogram.
Theron is the first South African to win an Oscar
in the acting category.
Her win came from her work in the 2004 film "Monster."
Could you spot the lie?
Those familiar with firearms might have.
Holographic sights weren't introduced until 1996.
If you caught it, give us a Fact yea! in the comments.
We'll see you next time.