Ariana DeBose was wounded ‘every day’ movie ‘love hurts

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Atomic Blonde Superfan Ariana DeBose had an explosion that channeled his inner Charlize Theron for his new action-rom-com Love hurts – Although it meant a daily dose of injuries.

From veteran stunt coordinator Jonathan Eusebio (John Wick, Black Panther) In his director’s debut, Flick Marvin Garble (Ke Huy Quan) follows, a real estate agent in the Milwaukee suburbs with a dark past. A former henchmen for his criminal chief Brother Alvin “Knuckles” Gable (a Boba Slurping Daniel Wu), Marvin managed to leave his life with crime for Dead goes into his life again. And she is bent with revenge against those who did her wrong.

Like Quan – who only accepted the role if he could make his own stunts as the icons in front of him (Jet Li! Sammo Hung!) – Debose insisted to make her fight scenes herself. “Part of the appeal, other than working with KE, had an opportunity to make the fighting sequences,” DeBose tells Entertainment weekly In a joint interview with Quan. “I love action movies, fell in love with Atomic BlondeAnd I was like, ‘oh! I will be as tough as Charlize one day! ‘This was a cool opportunity to work with a group of people who know how to do this. “

Ke Huy Quan as Marvin and Ariana Debose as Rose in ‘Love Hurts’.

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However, this provision culminated with damage “every day” on sets. “I remember Ari showing me (her arm and saying), ‘Look at this, ke. Is this normal?’ ‘Remember Quan. “I said, ‘sorry, Ari, that’s it. That’s what it takes to do these.'”

“You do not realize that it happened until after the fact” because of being so submerged in the stage, DeBose notes. But there was an injury she certainly felt at the moment: “I took a shoulder to the nose, which hurt,” she says. It happened with only one day left of film recording and during a climate fighting sequence involving knuckles and his crises.

“It was a tough moment. I don’t want to lie,” she admits. “But it comes with the territory. It’s a bit like earning your stripes. If you freeze the frame toward the end of Rose’s matches, you’ll probably notice my nose is a little raised. But I come from the theater and in the theater, we says, ‘The show should go on.’ “

Ariana Debose as Rose in ‘Love Hurts’.

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The West Side Story Alun compares battle sequences with “A Dance”, albeit an aggressive one – and of course, the former Broadway Star and Tony Award – nominated by a thing or two about dance. “I don’t necessarily train differently for that aspect of it,” says DeBose about the central exercises she and Quan went through months before being recorded. “I just went in and did the thing and had a damn good time doing it.”

Still, Quan the quiet hush and gasps, who fell over the room when Debose’s injury happened. “There was just silence on the set,” he remembers. “But she hardened it out.” Both stars were all in, injuries were cursed. “Making a movie like this has been a dream for me (since) I was younger,” says Quan. “The reason I wanted to study martial arts is because I wanted to do it in movies. I am influenced by all the incredible action stars that came before this. The fighting scenes that I love to keep an eye on again and again is when you are when you are when you are Can it be clear that it is the actor who makes them.

However, they loved every minute of it. And love, yes … hurts.

Love hurts Hits Theaters on Friday.