So, again, you can tell me if another stunt performer did it, but there are some scenes where Black Widow is sliding down roofs, being kicked off a bridge, falling from buildings, riding and crashing a motorcycle. Did you have any involvement in any of those particular scenes?
I don't think so. Usually the riding and falling off a motorcycle ... I [actually did] some motorcycle work, but it was some basic stuff towards the end. Though usually with a motorcycle guy, you bring in a separate motorcycle double because you want somebody riding and crashing a bike that's been riding a bike since they were 2 years old. So, I don't usually crash motorcycles on purpose. I'll ride them once in a while.
Now, did you take part in some of the hand-to-hand stuff, the combat stuff?
I don't know how much I'm supposed to say about it, but I came in for additional photography towards the end and I was involved in hand-to-hand and some wire stuff.
I would imagine, again, because you were saying you're always bumped up, there's got to be times where you're going to be connecting with that other performer, whether they're playing the Taskmaster or any other villain for that matter?
Sure. I mean, we definitely had a few bangs and hiccups and sometimes you miss where you're supposed to grab and someone falls, especially with us doing a lot of those moves where we're swinging around a big person or flying through the air, sometimes your head's coming close to the ground. So, yeah, I definitely had a few mishaps throughout, but nothing serious.
It looks cool. But the sad thing is, Heidi, it looks cool to us as viewers, but my God, I feel sorry for you — the pain you have to endure to entertain us!
Oh, you know what? It takes a really specific type of person to want to do what we do. So, we're good.
From a fan standpoint, have you followed all the films in the MCU? I mean, obviously Black Widow is a big character in a lot of them, but not in every single one. You got different characters for different chapters, but still, there's interaction between Black Widow and those characters from their solo films. Do you follow them to help you inform your work with Scarlett in any sort of way?
I follow them because I'm interested in— I'm part of the universe. It's really important now that we're meshing together so much to understand the different universes and how they work, and who the characters are and everything. Like for "Endgame," we had "Black Panther" and all of Wakanda, and we had "Guardians of the Galaxy" and all these different films that didn't involve us before, which are great and interesting stories as well. So, I follow those for sure, because it's important to know. A lot of times a storyline comes down, if you don't know who these characters are, then it's confusing, you're trying to figure everything out. I also follow it because they're good movies and they're really entertaining, and I like watching them.
