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movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you
from afar - you pretend it's not there.
My ideal is to wake up in the morning and run around the meadow naked.
That
will only happen if I have a bout of amnesia or if I feel like mooning
someone in the audience.
We
all trained the same, Vivica, Lucy, me, Quentin even, because he's going
to be playing Pai Mei, which is a character you haven't met yet, and we
all trained the same. We trained for several months here and then one
month in China and we trained with Master Yuen Woo-ping, kung fu,
wirework stuff, and then we trained with Sonny Chiba doing all the
Samurai sword stuff. I can do it all, but in terms of what style my
fight is, Quentin says that the first movie is like a Samurai and Kung
Fu movie and Japanese anime movie, with spaghetti western overtones,
while our movie is a spaghetti western with kung fu, anime and Samurai
overtones. So there's a lot more dialogue, and the fighting is the
antithesis of the snow garden fight, it's not beautiful, raise the red
lanterns kind of choreographed ballet. It's a messy, gruesome, gross
brawl, two cats in a bag, more of the gargantuan - there's a trashing of
everything, it's horrible.
But the important thing about this party is to raise awareness of how many different solutions are out there to alleviate and abate this global climate change.
We
practiced with both, because the real sword is heavier so you have to
get used to the weight.
It
was hard for the physical stuff because I had to retrain, because once I
had learned all the skills I had to retrain with the patch because it
definitely throws off your center of gravity and your depth perception.
That will only happen if I have a bout of amnesia or if I feel like mooning someone in the audience.
I
think that was so great. I think it was my idea, actually. Because I
brought it up to Quentin in Mexico, 'I don't know if you thought of this
before this,' but I thought it was a great idea, because the script was
the size of the telephone book, and then he added onto that and so he
would have either had to lose so much, you see how much there is, didn't
you feel like you'd watched 30 films in one when you saw this? And now
we're going to learn about O-Ren Ishii's childhood, and there's a whole
movie there. There are so many different movies in one, it would have
been so sad to have had to cut it into an hour and a half, the whole
thing; it would have been ridiculous.
I
don't really think it really had to do so much with the patch as just
the frustration of the situation. It totally frustrated her, because
Bill's my boyfriend and I have to do what he says, because he's also my
boss. Yet I do not want this woman coming back ever, ever, ever, because
she used to be his woman. So I have absolutely no love for her at all.
Quentin
really had that all worked out, so I didn't have to make up anything
myself. He knew exactly where she came from, who she was, he wrote
things that weren't even supposed to be in the movie just to have ideas
of what happens between me and Bill, so there's tons of material for me
to work on.
I
don't want to tell you about our surprises, but it will make you hate me
a lot more.
Unfortunately,
I ended up kind of getting sadly duped, in a way. I haven't had an agent
in 10 years, and now I'm doing some of the most interesting films I've
ever had an opportunity to play in.
I
guess. I don't know. It's the same as two men fighting really, isn't it?
I mean, it's just two people fighting. For Quentin, it's definitely got
its fetishy aspects.
Oh,
God, I don't know. I'm probably not the best person to ask that question
to. Maybe you should ask yourself that. Maybe you should ask Quentin,
I'm sure he'll have a great answer to that one.
The
Samurai sword was mostly the weapon that I used, and I did also use a
sub-machine gun, but the Samurai sword was my main weapon and it’s so
beautiful. It’s such an amazing art. It really is an art, and every
way you place the sword, whether you put it in front of you, to the
right or to the left of you, it has a meaning. Whether you turn the
blade towards you or away from you has a meaning. Which hand you use has
a meaning, which hand you hold it in, it’s so ceremonial.
thou
canst not stir a flower without the troubling of a star.
When
you bow to each other, you always look your opponent in the eye and if
you don’t it means there’s no war between you. There’s a meaning
to everything that you do and all the movements have a name and have a
corresponding whole world about them. It think it’s a really, really
beautiful art, I really loved learning it and I’m terrible at it, but
I still really enjoyed it. It’s so hard because you have to stay
really low, you always have to stay with bent knees, but really, really
low to the ground, almost as low as we’re sitting right now.
But
it has to look fluid and effortless and it’s a really, really
incredible art, and I have so much respect for it. And a Samurai is only
allowed to cry five times in their life.
It's
the first villain that I've played in a movie that has absolutely no
vulnerability and no innocence, nothing whatsoever that is likeable
about her other than she's so bad. All the other deadly vipers have some
empathetic quality, O-Ren Ishii has this horrible past, Vivica's
character just wants to be a mom, the Bride has been abused, but my
character is just bad all the way through, there's nothing to like about
her, and you're going to hate her so much in the second one, because she
does horrible things.
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