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'Madame Web' is the latest Marvel and Sony film to crawl into theaters. The Hollywood Reporter spoke with Dakota Johnson, Sydney Sweeney, Isabela Merced, Celeste O'Connor and Tahar Rahim all about the intensive training they had to do before filming the action movie and how they bonded as a cast on and off set. 'Madame Web' is now playing in theaters.

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00:00I was honestly shook and shocked because I was like, oh my god, Sidney Sweeney is that girl.

00:05She is like talented. She's a producer. She's boss.

00:09I was like so surprised that you like really wanted to genuinely connect.

00:14Madam Web is the latest Marvel and Sony film to crawl into theaters.

00:17You want to live, you have to trust me.

00:21The Hollywood Reporter spoke with the stars all about the intensive training they had to do before filming the action movie

00:26and how they bonded as a cast on and off set.

00:28The movie sees Dakota Johnson, Sidney Sweeney, Isabella Merced and Celeste O'Connor play a group of people

00:33who are essentially on their own in the world until they find each other.

00:37What do you think this movie says about the power of a chosen family?

00:40Yeah, I think that message is so powerful and so strong in this movie.

00:44It just speaks to the universality of loneliness, I think, and isolation.

00:48We end up being vulnerable with each other and connecting and finding friendship in a really unexpected place.

00:53I think it's so important, you know, the people that you choose in your life.

00:58That's like really your biggest story and I love how they choose each other and they protect each other

01:05and they really do become this sort of unconventional family.

01:09I feel like that's kind of our own story too.

01:11Yeah.

01:12Yeah.

01:13Yeah, I think you're often paired up with a bunch of actors and they're just like,

01:16be best friends, do it.

01:17Be best friends and then we'll start shooting.

01:19But it's like, no, this is very natural for us.

01:22And I do think that in society today, like we lack a lot of connection and like valuing it.

01:28And so I really do like that message.

01:30I agree with you.

01:31I love to hear that that's natural for all of you.

01:32And you actually became friends on set.

01:34Yeah, we did.

01:35What sort of things did you do off set to bond and strengthen that bond?

01:39We had movie nights.

01:40We would go out and eat all the time.

01:43You would go shoplifting all the time.

01:45No.

01:46So many things.

01:47It was really a fun tune.

01:49It was so fun.

01:50Sydney, when I've talked to you before, you said that you are the activity organizer.

01:55And so it sounds like, was she the activity organizer this time?

01:58And what sort of activities did she organize?

02:00Totally.

02:00She had us working out.

02:02Like she would literally text in our group chat and be like, okay, girl, so here are the

02:05dates and the times for Pilates.

02:07Like join whenever you want.

02:09We're going to go to solid core.

02:11And I was like, wow, like she's so cool.

02:14Yeah.

02:15Organizes a lot.

02:16Like I can't even probably list them all.

02:18There's so many things you organized.

02:19I know that they did like Pilates and pottery, but I was working.

02:24Like they got to do really fun stuff.

02:26And I just was like, if I wasn't working, I was asleep.

02:29When you're filming in all these places with all these new people, it's a constant rotation

02:33of new environment and new people.

02:36And I have tried to, in the last few years, find the importance and take time to build

02:42the lasting relationships and the bonds with people.

02:44Because in reality, we don't really have that much time to truly build a friendship.

02:48I was honestly shook and shocked because I was like, oh my God, Sydney Sweeney is that girl.

02:53She is like talented.

02:56She's a producer.

02:57She's boss.

02:57I was like so surprised that you like really wanted to genuinely connect.

03:02A pleasantly surprise, you know?

03:04Thanks.

03:05And then we all actually became besties.

03:06I'm just glad you shut up.

03:07But before filming began, the cast had to do some serious preparation.

03:13What sort of combat and stunt training did you have to do before filming this movie?

03:17I did a lot.

03:18Yeah.

03:19On average, four to five times a week with a personal trainer to get toned and strong like

03:28a spider.

03:29And with the stuntman, the fighting choreographies and the wires and all of it.

03:33A lot of like running and jumping and being thrown up in the air.

03:37And then the fun part, I think for all of us, is like figuring out our pose for when we land.

03:43From the ceiling or whatever architecture that we're choosing.

03:47We would look at the comic books, see what they did in the comic books.

03:51And then like create a variation of that that's possible for a human body.

03:55I did a day of stunt driving training, which was very fun.

04:00And then a lot of like working out and hand-to-hand combat.

04:03And just like figuring out what Cassie's fighting style was.

04:07Because it's not, she's not like a typical superhero where she has certain kind of physical

04:13movement that's recognizable.

04:15You know, she's, her power is in her mind.

04:18So figuring out her, her fighting technique was fun because she's an orphan.

04:23She grew up in the foster system.

04:25I thought that she would be quite scrappy and wild when it comes to fighting.

04:31Johnson also went through free diving training to prepare for the film's underwater scenes.

04:35That was really fun. I, you know, you learn, I learned how to hold my breath for quite a long

04:40time. And, um, it's such an incredible, like meditative skill to learn. It's amazing what

04:46you can teach your body to do. I think the longest that I did on set was like three and a half minutes.

04:53Madam Webb is now playing in theaters. For more on the film, go to THR.com.

04:57For the Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Tiffany Taylor.

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