![]() Was that how it was in rehearsals and not like “Oh my God, I have to scale up to Samuel L. It’s seems like the two of you are working on a level playing field. , he’s just the most kind, giving, professional person, he’s just a wonderful human being and I kind of wish I could be with him on everything just randomly be in his films! *laughs*įor a lot of the film, you’re the central focus but in your scenes with Karl it doesn’t seem like you’re having to square up to him in terms of your performance. Jackson?Ībsolutely wonderful! He is exactly how you would imagine him to be…cool! *laughs*…even when it’s three in the morning and everyone’s exhausted and he’s and looks just great and cool and calm with everything. Moving on to your castmates, you know who I am going to ask about. Yes, it does have a very disconnected, like it could be anywhere feel to it. I think the year before you were shooting Kite, the production of Dredd had been there for location shooting and I remember thinking “Oh, these will look similar.” But the two films, Dredd feels very open and barren whereas Kite feels, like you were saying, like the post apocalypse. ![]() Yes! The locations themselves, I figured we were in South Africa but I have to say it’s one of the locations that feels very urban and also very wide open in certain scenes and shots. ![]() They did because a lot of the locations and places were not the most conducive for filming fight scenes! They did have to tweak them, you know, and just see as we went along. OK, so when you were on set, did the stunt coordinators have improvise scenes based on your location? He’s just brilliant, brilliant, such a sweet guy and I did martial arts and weapons training with him for three months leading up to filming. He did The Book of Eli, The Matrix, the Bond films, Hanna. While I was in Los Angeles, I worked with this stunt coordinator who unfortunately wasn’t able to work on, his name’s Jeff Imada. All that I’d seen when I Googled it was the kitchen fight but then I found the entire thing because I thought it would be good to know what I was up against!ĭid you have to go through any training for the combat scenes before you stepped into the role, so to speak? It was very hard to find but I finally got a DVD of it. Had you seen the original in preparation? OK, so jumping right in: How did you hear about the project? Eisley! Thank you for taking the time to speak with us today We chat to India Eisley, star of the live-action remake of notorious Anime Kite…įollowing our review of Kite, we sat down and chatted over the phone to the film’s lead actor, India Eisley.
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