"The bike scene, a kid was asking me if I really did that or if it was blue screen? I said, 'No, it's like ballet, you need perfect timing. Some of his scenes took a lot of timing and practice. I spent 8 hours, I think, training that day doing the neck rope stuff and they allowed me to do it the next day." And I did it in one day and I actually got quite good at it. I don't care even if I look crap.' Because he's just picking up this thing from out of nowhere. So they were going to take over and do this stunt and I watched them one day and one day before the actual shoot I said, 'Give me one day to train and I'll do it. Also I thought it was good input because Alex Rider isn't an aggressive character, but he'd rather run. "Donnie Yen was coordinating the martial arts sequences I did all of them, but Donnie Yen brought his team on because they decided two days before to change the choreography to rope fighting. On set, it was the action and stunt work that Alex was focused on - and he had a pretty good coach. But I want people to come out and actually believe they could be that someone and that's what I really took from the book, just being normal and people could relate to this guy." He's not a superhero, he's not someone who can fly and who is out of reach that you could be children come out of the cinema and want to be a character until they see the next film. A book is like a door you go into the imaginative world of a kid and I always see that kids see themselves as characters, so I really wanted to portray him as a normal guy. We sat down on my sofa and I was just talking to him and got some information from him. "Yeah, I talked to him for about 3 hours. Once he got the role, it was all about nailing down the character Alex spoke with Anthony, who also wrote the screenplay, about who Alex Rider really is. Not an arm or a leg, just a piece of him towards Alex Rider." Actually I figured out it was a good omen, because I went to my former coach, who is an ex-SAS guy, and I created a bit of the character I took a piece from him. "I was actually training with a lovely woman called Eunice (Huthart), who was Angelina Jolie's stuntwoman and I thought she wasn't as tough as she was and I went in for a move and she got me in the knee.
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And also when I got the role I went into training for 3 weeks doing martial arts, kung fu, kick boxing, learning how to wheelie on a quad bike or whatever it was quite an experience."ĭuring the prep, Alex did suffer a minor injury. "When I was going through the audition process, I started going to the gym, because if I was lucky enough to get, Alex Rider is quite a muscular, bigger guy I wanted to train up obviously and get prepared for the role. Obviously, it's a nerve-wracking thing to do, but I was excited."īefore even getting the part, he went through extensive training to build muscle and stamina.
I was nervous reading the script about bringing a character out of a book onto the screen. "I read the books two months prior to getting the script in. Out of 500 kids who auditioned, 15-year-old Alex was chosen he knew the books, which definitely helped him in his preparation.
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