I've been a big fan of the stunt team on this show,
and I've been fortunate enough to
have some really great fights.
It's great working with Ed.
He's a great athlete and a hard worker,
and he wants everything to look good
and the preparation and the time
and the effort that he put into everything
for every scene or every rehearsal that we've done
with him as far as a fight scene,
or even something as small as doing a roll, you know,
he wants it to look really good.
It's been two or three sort of big fight moments,
stunt moments, and it's something that I relish doing.
I don't necessarily think I'm any good at it,
but it's something I really enjoy doing and
I get a lot of satisfaction from being a part of that
and working out the choreography with the, or going
through the choreography with the stunt department.
I mean, Guy Fernandez
and Matt have been superb the whole way through.
Sort of compare Season 1, 2, and 3.
The biggest thing that we wanted to evolve
on screen was showing more of actor action versus
having to go behind the actor and
and cut into it really fast.
And you know it's the double and all
of our actors did a really good job of preparing
and rehearsing to make everything look great on screen.
Previs is basically a pre-visual, is what it stands for
so that we can show directors, producers, you know,
people who are making decisions.
They kind of give us a concept for
like what they want and we choreograph it, we shoot it,
we add in all the special effects, visual effects,
and really try to make it as seamless as possible
so that we can shoot it on the day
and have no hiccups whatsoever.
It's basically a blueprint
of what we're gonna shoot on the day.
Fight Choreographer or Fight Coordinator-
his name's Matt Mullens-
he did a great job.
We worked together as a team and tried to come up with the
best fight sequence possible in order to make
the words on the page come alive on screen.
It ended up coming out really amazing.
But, I sort of feel that the
stunt department and the stunt men and women
in that scene did a lot of the hard work.
I think that's one of the things to remember when
you are doing stunt work,
some of it is like dancing.
It feels like it should be all very much physical
and aggressive, but actually it's,
there's a lot of fluidity there and it's a lot
to do with be malleable and move around.
There's nothing better than having actors who really care
and really want to make everything look good.
I have to say one of my favorite things
about third season is the fact
that I was given an opportunity to do so many stunts.
Michelle's great to work with.
She is probably one of the hardest working actors
that I've worked with as far as coming into rehearse,
wanting to do not just a good job, but a great job.
There's so many female actresses
in acting schools and conservatories that take
stage combat and 101 and all that stuff.
And we dream to, like,
“I'll be carrying a broad sword one day”
and that just doesn't happen.
So to get that opportunity, and mind you
I've been doing this,
I'm, you know,
I've been a professional actress for decades and
this is the first time that all that training,
I got to apply.
And the fact that I get to do it
with Michael Dorn, with Worf,
and with our amazing stunt team, our choreographers,
and all my stunty guys and girls was amazing.
I had the best time.
I was, like, smiling like this every single time,
mind you, exhausted and sweaty.
And I love the directors of each
of those episodes to allow me to do
the actual storytelling that is part of stunts.
Ye olde fight to the death.
She's in incredible shape.
So it was really, really easy to have these
stunt fights with her.
We got along in terms of as actors.
So fun and I gotta say it was, like,
a kid in the candy store.
I just wanna do it over and over and
over and over again and I wanna do the longest
fight that you could ever find, you know,
choreographed for a woman.
That would be my goal.
But this, it was amazing and
I really hope everybody enjoys them.
Every one of the fights that we've done,
every one of the actual stunts that we've done,
whether it's pulling people
in the walls or huge fight sequences,
I'm really happy for the way they came out and
I'm excited for people to see this season.
Done some really cool things,
and hopefully the fans love it.