00:00 I was honestly shook and shocked because I was like, oh my god, Sydney Sweeney is that girl. She is like
00:06 Talented she's a producer. She's boss. I was like so surprised that you like really wanted to genuinely connect
00:13 Madam Webb is the latest Marvel and Sony film to crawl into theaters. You want to live?
00:18 You have to trust me
00:20 the Hollywood Reporter spoke with the stars all about the intensive training they had to do before filming the action movie and how they bonded as
00:27 A cast on and off set the movie sees Dakota Johnson Sydney Sweeney
00:31 Isabella Merced and Celeste O'Connor play a group of people who are essentially on their own in the world until they find each other
00:36 What do you think this movie says about the power of a chosen family?
00:40 Yeah, I think that message is so powerful and so strong in this movie. It just speaks to the universality of loneliness
00:46 I think in isolation
00:48 We end up being vulnerable with each other and connecting and finding friendship in a really unexpected place. I think it's so important
00:55 You know the people that you choose in your life
00:58 that's like really your biggest story and I
01:02 Love how they choose each other and they protect each other and they really do become this sort of unconventional family
01:09 I feel like that's kind of our own story - yeah. Yeah. Yeah
01:13 I know I think you're often paired up with a bunch of actors and they're just like be best friends do it
01:17 Be best friends and then we'll start shooting but it's like no
01:20 this is very natural for us and I do think that in society today that we lack a lot of connection and like
01:26 Valuing it and so I really do like that message. I agree with you
01:30 I love to hear that that's natural for all of you and you actually became friends on set
01:34 What sort of things did you do offset to bond and strengthen that bond? We had movie night
01:40 We would go
01:42 Out and eat. We would go shoplifting all the time
01:45 We did so many things
01:47 It really bonds you
01:49 So fun
01:50 Sydney when I've talked to you before you said that you are the activity organizer
01:55 Yeah, and so it sounds like was she the activity organizer this time and what sort of activities did she organize?
01:59 Totally she had us working out like she would literally text in our group chat and be like, okay girl
02:04 So here's here are the dates and the times for Pilates like join whenever you want
02:09 We're gonna go to solid core and I was like, wow, like she's so cool
02:14 Yeah organizes a lot. Like I can't even probably list them all there's so many things
02:19 I know that they did like Pilates and
02:22 Pottery but I was working I like they got to do really fun stuff
02:26 And I just was like if I wasn't working I was asleep when you're filming in all these places with all these new people
02:32 it's a constant rotation of new environment and new people and
02:36 I have tried to in the last few years
02:40 Find the importance and take time to build the lasting relationships and the bonds with people because in reality
02:45 We don't really have that much time to truly build a friendship
02:48 I was honestly shook and shocked because I was like, oh my god, Sydney Sweeney is that girl?
02:53 She is like talented. She's a producer. She's boss
02:57 I was like so surprised that you like really wanted to genuinely connect a pleasantly surprised, you know
03:09 But before filming began the cast had to do some serious preparation
03:13 What sort of combat and stunt training did you have to do before filming this movie? I did a lot
03:17 Yeah on average
03:20 Four to five times a week with a personal trainer to
03:25 Get toned and strong like a spider and with the stuntman the fighting
03:30 Choreographies and the wires and all of it
03:33 I like running and jumping and being thrown up in the air and then the fun part
03:38 I think for all of us is like figuring out our pose for when we land from the ceiling or whatever
03:44 Architecture that we're choosing we would look at the comic books
03:48 See what what they did in the comic books and then like create a variation that that's possible for a human body
03:54 I did a day of stunt driving
03:56 training which was
03:59 very fun and then a lot of like working out and hand-to-hand combat and just like figuring out what
04:06 Cassie's fighting style was because it's not she's not like a typical superhero where
04:10 She has certain kind of physical movement that's recognizable. You know, she's her power is in her mind. So
04:18 Figuring out her her fighting technique was fun because she's an orphan. She grew up in the foster system
04:25 I thought that she would be quite scrappy and wild when it comes to
04:30 Fighting Johnson also went through free diving training to prepare for the film's underwater scenes. That was really fun. I
04:36 you know you learn I learned how to hold my breath for quite a long time and
04:41 It's such an incredible like meditative skill to learn. It's amazing what you can teach your body to do
04:48 I think the longest that I did on set was like three and a half minutes
04:53 Madam Webb is now playing in theaters for more on the film go to THR.com for the Hollywood Reporter News. I'm Tiffany Taylor
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