I’m sure even people who have incredible, enviable bodies are insecure about them in some way. Initially, when someone asks you to be completely naked, your insecurities come to the surface - every little thing you don’t like about yourself. It was about three months of training, hours and hours a day, getting that choreography down, getting the lines of the sword right, and learning how to react to being hit when somebody’s hitting you. But were intent on making the fight scenes amazing, the best they could be, they wanted us to do as much as possible ourselves. The way a TV network does stuff, there’s not a lot of time and they have a stunt person do a lot of your stuff. I’ve never worked with a sword to this extent, only a little bit on The 100. I started training immediately on my own, and then they started training me in sword-fighting techniques and the physical stuff I was going to be required to do. At the time, my daughter was 2 and I was back in shape, but I wasn’t in shape the way Reileen needs to be in shape.
It’s meant to be - and I hope that it is - something different than anything you’ve seen before.”ĭid you do any preparations for the fight scenes or otherwise to ready yourself physically for a role where you’re playing a person who’s hundreds of years old? Dichen is a mom and an incredible consummate professional actor who trained herself to the point where she felt on every level that she was otherworldly.… What’s terrifying and beautiful about her is she’s utterly un-self-conscious, and because of that, her power is even more striking. Every time you kill her, she comes back, and she comes back perfect each time. You want to buy in this scene that Reileen feels like a god on every level - right down the point where you can’t kill her. In our story, Meths believe they have become gods. “In this sequence, I wanted to do an expression of something that isn’t often associated with female nudity in the present day United States, and that’s power - not sexual power, but physical ownership of the power of your body in a way that women are not really allowed to show. “Societally we associate female nudity with shame, vulnerability, and with sex,” says showrunner Laeta Kalogridis.
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