You joined the Star Wars galaxy as Sabine Wren, alongside Rosario Dawson on Ahsoka. So we’ve reached the portion of the interview where we start choosing our words very carefully. I hadn’t been activated in so long, in that way, and so it was a rebirth project for a lot of us. So it was like my restart button of just getting back into everything. And on a personal level, this was the first project I did during the pandemic, slash emerging from the pandemic. Every project is different in terms of how much they want you to stick exactly to the script and how strict they are about it, but Day Shift was the loosest set I’ve ever experienced in terms of freedom around improv. It was the most off-script project I’ve ever experienced. Yeah, I learned a lot from Jamie and Dave in terms of comedy and timing and improv, for sure. Was learning how to adjust during heavy improvisation the biggest lesson you learned on this movie? Moving on.” I thought to myself, “Oh my God, you can’t cut off Jamie Foxx,” but I had to and I did. They would be going off in their jokey improv ways, and I would have to be like, “Alright, that’s enough. I had to cut Jamie off during improv, in a rude way, because my character was done with the two of them joking around or whatever. And it wouldn’t really be fitting for me to join in with the jokes a lot of the time. And my character was the “straight woman” in the comedy sense, so I had a lot of information dumps and exposition dialogue. It’s really fun, but Jamie and Dave would improvise a lot. So I was too engaged to think about it too much, but the hardest thing about the film was that there was so much improv. He was constantly joking and constantly telling the craziest stories. I mean, he literally walked onto set most days with a boombox, blasting music with his friends and whoever else was there. He is so entertaining from start to finish. Thankfully, he doesn’t give you much time to think too hard about it. With Jamie Foxx, how long does it take to get over the notion that you’re acting in a scene with someone you’ve probably watched for a long time? Well, I didn’t hear a lisp so you’re in the clear. So it came in handy, but I don’t know why the sword is constantly a thing for me. It’s an advantage, but it’s also difficult because I have to unlearn so many things. You already have such a background.” But I sort of approach every project as a beginner because you have to learn and unlearn so much physically to take on this new role and figure out exactly how the physicality of that role complements that character. Stunt people are always really confident they’re like, “Yeah, you’ve done this before. Crouching Tiger was very wuxia Chinese style, and Day Shift was much more samurai Katana style. ( Laughs.) Yeah, the sword has followed me through this career, hasn’t it? I did have something to go from, but it was really different. Once you started Day Shift, how much of your Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny sword skills were still in you? There are just so many little things that are jarring unless you’re used to stunts, so it definitely helped.”ĭave Franco as Seth, Jamie Foxx as Bud and Natasha Liu Brodizzo as Heather in Day Shift. There are things like not squinting when you’re about to be hit. “Even if you’re a physical person and physically fit, the act of being in a choreographed and really intense fight is still something to get used to. Everything and anything helps,” Bordizzo explains. “ helped a lot, especially with weapons training. Her role as a vampire-hunting vampire required a great deal of stunt training, and it served as a nice warmup for Ahsoka’s own extensive stunt training. So they encouraged, but obviously, I did watch it because how could I not?”īordizzo heard the good news about her Star Wars casting while she was on set with Jamie Foxx, shooting Day Shift, Netflix’s most recent number-one movie worldwide. My character’s memory is already recorded. It’s just this kind of free prep that I never even had to do as an actor because it’s all been done for me. “It’s almost like a memory book that’s what I feel Rebels is for me. While Ahsoka will certainly have its own identity, Bordizzo, during prep, couldn’t help but revisit the animated Sabine Wren (Tiya Sircar) on Star Wars Rebels. It’s just such a great energy and very inspiring,” Bordizzo tells The Hollywood Reporter. “, this lady was trying to pay my character to help her, and my friend and I were like, ‘It’s almost like a young Han Solo kind of feeling.’ So that was just complete chance, and I still think of his role often, energetically, as I’m doing now. Mark Hamill Talks 'The Machine,' His 'Star Wars' Future and Joining Mike Flanagan's Repertory Company
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