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  • "Hi, I'm Cathy Yan, the director of 'Birds of Prey.'

  • So we're near the end of the movie.

  • And this is the culminating, the final fight scene

  • between the women and the gangs

  • that Roman Sionis, played by Ewan McGregor,

  • sends in to the funhouse, which

  • is called the Booby Trap.

  • Well, originally, it wasn't a funhouse, actually.

  • I believe, originally, it was a hotel.

  • And they were supposed to fight their way down.

  • But then, when I got together with our amazing production

  • designer, KK Barrett, and our DP, Matthew Libatique,

  • we kind of thought, wouldn't it

  • be more interesting to convey a location that

  • felt like Harley Quinn's mind on acid?

  • Our actresses, they're actually

  • doing the majority of the stunts themselves.

  • That was four to five months of brutal training.

  • When we were in prep, the actors

  • were training pretty much every day

  • with our stunt team."

  • "Come on!"

  • "Margot learned to roller skate for this movie

  • because she ends up roller skating in a good portion

  • of the movie.

  • She learned to roller skate on a bank track

  • for the derby scene.

  • And then, obviously, she's roller skating here.

  • And for this moment, she is actually just roller skating.

  • And she was so--

  • she became so good that she was

  • able to stop herself, which is actually

  • the most difficult thing to do,

  • while on a rotating carousel, which

  • is infinitely harder than when you're not

  • on a rotating carousel.

  • What was another big challenge that we only sort of realized

  • on the day, too, was that because the background was

  • so different, for continuity, whenever we started a take,

  • we had to make sure that we started and ended

  • at the same point.

  • So the carousel became a sort of clock.

  • And we had a number for each of the hands.

  • And then each hand had to directly correlate

  • with a point outside in the funhouse

  • so that we were able to actually match up

  • the backgrounds.

  • If we didn't do that, then it would have

  • been a complete nightmare."

  • [MUSIC PLAYING]

  • "[SHOUTS] Ah.

  • Wait."

"Hi, I'm Cathy Yan, the director of 'Birds of Prey.'

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