The Joe Rogan experience That's ridiculous like I came in slightly intimidated why I Actually don't know the answer to that because we've never met.
Yeah, so it's not like you've intimidated me but I just I'm really I think I what I really enjoy about your show is just such an eclectic perspective on so many diverse things and it comes like so naturally to you I really admire that well fortunately I don't have anybody pick my guests so it's all people that I'm actually interested in talking to so it's easy Thank you for picking me.
Oh my pleasure.
I'm excited to talk to you Your movie is fucking crazy like I knew it was a pilot a pirate movie But I just did not expect the ultra violence like from the beginning.
I was like yo Like I locked in immediately.
I was like first scene.
I was like holy shit like this is crazy Well, thank you.
What was that good thing right to fit me is it?
when you're doing something that's that hyper violent like is that does that freak you out at all like you're cutting people open with swords and stabbing them in the neck and it's like holy shit when you're doing it you know it's like make-believe so it's so much fun to be like yeah i'm playing pirates and i'm gonna behead you but um i mean in moments of like scenes and stuff where i actually had to think about what it must have been like to be a female at that time or because they existed women female pirates existed and we just we didn't hear many much about stories about them i mean i heard about grace o'malley maybe um there were mary reed like a few famous ones right um ching shi after i did my research but like in those moments you're like this stuff must have like this was real they lived at a time where it was Survival of the fittest it was barbaric and I wonder what that must have been like but besides that the stunts and stuff like I really have so much admiration for the amount of Precision it requires to pull that stuff off from so many people not just the stunt department But like the cameras because they're also moving in sync with you.
Yeah, and that's cool It is cool.
Is it hard to stay in the moment when all that is happening?
Because you have so much coordination and so there's there's so much choreography There's like he's gonna swing this way and you're gonna block it and you're gonna dive down It's like it's so complex.
Like these are long extended fight scenes we had like a lot of oners to like fold the whole scene in one shot whoa which Frankie our director really loved the idea of and I honestly love it because it brings you into that that moment is so enriched with everything that you're supposed to feel between action and cut so I do love a long one er but you know I come from Bollywood movies so we have a lot of choreography for like dance sequences where stories are also moving forward like between you know your exchange of expression or something's happening somewhere else you come back so I treat sort of fight sequences like dancing it's you learn the choreography but that doesn't stop your face from telling the story right that makes sense yeah yeah and I mean it is kind I mean it's just choreography Whether it's choreography with dance or choreography with guns or weapons I had never worked with blades before this movie though.
That was cool How much training did you have to do like when you found out you're gonna take the role?
Yeah, um, how much preparation did you have to do physically to get ready for all that stuff?
It was a cool year for me because I was filming three jobs, which were all Action and stunts.
So this movie called heads of state which I did for Amazon again and then Citadel and this movie So it was a year of three action back jobs So the you know being agile and being in it was already part of what I was doing because that's what I was filming every day But the swords training was tough and to be ambidextrous with it as well so I had my My stunt coordinator who was doing all three movies with me, she, in between shots, she and I would just take our rubber swords out and do, like, choreography in rehearsals.
But, like, it took at least three or four months of just staying in it and getting loose with it.
Also because Carl Urban, my co-actor, had, casual, learned how to do, like, sword fights in Lord of the Rings.
So he was amazing at it.