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00:04Hello, I'm Jessica Alba.
00:05I'm Molly Soria.
00:07We'll be breaking down the training
00:08that went into my fight scenes in Trigger Warning.
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00:14First day of waking up for training.
00:17It took about two months of me just doing, like, conditioning
00:20and getting myself up to speed with the action
00:24and choreography and all of that.
00:26Every day I would wake up going right into the gym
00:30doing my workout and then doing the choreography
00:34and just getting comfortable with doing hand-to-hand combat.
00:37It's a skill, and I just, I was a little rusty.
00:41I did like using the dagger
00:43because it was almost like another appendage.
00:45It was like an extension of me.
00:47And then the machete is just like a fun,
00:50interesting, badass weapon to use.
00:53And because it was an Indonesian machete,
00:55I actually could use it in one hand.
00:57It wasn't so heavy.
00:59We installed the idea of the knife very early on.
01:03I think pretty much day one, I was like,
01:06okay, this is real, okay.
01:09It kind of like evolved during script writing,
01:12and then it kind of grows
01:13into this machete fighting in the end.
01:15Well, they just threw it all at me, to be honest.
01:20The hardware store was interesting
01:22because I really got to utilize random items
01:26that were within arm's reach.
01:28It was also just like, I haven't seen that before.
01:31And so it felt very kind of like inventive.
01:34And also just the texture of it.
01:36Like we were in a real hardware store.
01:37It like smelled like bird feed and horse feed.
01:40And you know, it was like dried corn and hay everywhere.
01:44Salt licks.
01:45It was wild.
01:46Ultimately, when you see it all put together on screen,
01:49it was worth it.
01:50Rehearsal's done?
01:51Let's go.
01:52Are we really doing a movie?
01:53Let's go.
01:54When you're working a real professional team like this,
01:57it's very safe, very planned out.
02:01The trainers trained Jessica in a couple of moves
02:04that will be basically the basic,
02:07you know, like the five ballet decisions.
02:09As an analogy, it kind of like pretty quick.
02:12I picked it up, yeah, pretty quickly.
02:14Yeah, and she picked it up very quickly.
02:16Probably the best team in the business that I've seen,
02:20just because they really come at it.
02:22Like they wouldn't even come to the table
02:25with even proposing a fight sequence
02:27until they had a final script that they could work from
02:31because they build all the fight choreography
02:34from the character and the motivation of the character.
02:37The things that could go wrong, they anticipate
02:39and they make sure that you watch out for those things.
02:44I've always loved action movies.
02:46And I would say what I was missing the most
02:50as a young woman watching action movies
02:53was I didn't see myself.
02:54In the cell now.
02:55I feel like in this genre,
02:57you primarily have women play the damsel in distress.
03:01Sup, damsel in distress.
03:02And I was developing this as an executive producer.
03:05I was thrilled that I got to have a hand in everything
03:09from being able to bring on a female director,
03:12have a female writer to infuse some of this,
03:15these more feminine elements that I wanted Parker to have.
03:18It really is a different take
03:21on what you would normally see in the action genre.
03:24And I think it's really kick-ass.
03:28The hardest part about training was making sure that I,
03:33while I'm tired and still going about my day,
03:37staying true to where Parker is emotionally in the story
03:41because she's at different levels and different times
03:44based off of, you know, what sequence we were shooting.
03:46And so just making sure that that emotion
03:49is still coming through
03:51and all of the action is still being motivated
03:54by the character's emotion.
03:56And it doesn't, isn't just, you know,
03:58going through a dance sequence or a choreography.
04:02And that's, it can be exhausting
04:04because it's physically taxing,
04:06but then also it can be emotionally taxing.
04:09There was one kill I did that was very satisfying
04:12in a hallway of a cave with that machete.
04:15And I love how you carry it like a yoga mat.
04:17Yeah, I carried it with like a,
04:20I have like a harness.
04:21I have a harness.
04:22Now you hate it so much
04:23because it just gets in the way of your movement.
04:26Just a little domestic terrorism.
04:28A favorite of mine is the one in the burning bar.
04:32Oh, yeah, yeah.
04:33Parker just wanted to go upstairs
04:35and save some stuff from her dad's.
04:37That was the motivation.
04:39It's something about the burning house,
04:41the burning memories.
04:42In a way, it's a bit, it's a little poetic.
04:44And I think that kind of propels her
04:46into another stage of the five, basically.
04:48Yeah, another level of rage.
04:50Yes, exactly, another level of rage.
04:52And I just love that.
04:53That they just took everything from her.
04:56See me in Trigger Warning only on Netflix.
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