This movie includes a ton of action. Can you talk a little bit about what you did to prepare for all that?
It was a long process. The whole training was maybe six months, but just with the tactical training, and that was three months before the movie. I was doing lots of military training and doing gym and physically changing my body a little bit, because I wanted to portray that strength and physicality that a character like this will have in real life as a combat, military girl. Then we have to learn all the movements, all the fights — it was like 800 moves that you have to get in your head.
It was a lot of training, every day, three hours of getting into all those fights and moving and learning them. Then, in the afternoons, we'll go on and get into the gym and work out and do chin-ups and weights. [I was] eating a lot, having a diet to create that muscle that I really wanted to create and to feel that strength myself as a strong woman.
What was it like collaborating with Chris [Hemsworth] on this project?
The relationship with the executives is very gentle, you see them, like, "Hi" ... [They're] more like an advisor. Especially with it being an action movie, he's a professional already in this kind of movie. He knows everything, so it was really good to have him on my side, watching it and looking at it and [saying] what he thinks and giving advice about it. That was great.
