'Fight or Flight's Josh Hartnett and Charithra Chandran on the action movie's wildest stunts

You do so many things in this, but your co-stars were commending you for doing so much of your stunts

Did you do all of them? I did them all, yeah. There's one that they wouldn't let me do in the end, but I was planning on doing it, and we rehearsed it

But then when it came down to it, we had a lot to do that day. And the chances of it going wrong were very high, so I didn't get thrown into the bar

That was Clayton, who is actually my stunt guy. He taught me everything I needed to know in order to get to a point that I could actually perform these things

The stunt team, they choreographed everything. So we had an amazing stunt team

I'm not taking anything away from that. But that was the conceit of the film was, you know, that's kind of the fun of watching a movie like this

You get to see the actual character go through it all. And Jim and I had talked about it beforehand, the director

If it weren't me, it would have been a much more expensive film. We would have had to get, you know, much different in the staging

But with me in there, you could actually just shoot it free-flowing and get what you get

And so it was a necessary part of the filmmaking, but also a lot of fun for me because I haven't done that since I was in my 20s and I'm not in my 20s anymore

Are you telling me that pain is a love killer? Was there anything in this that was like totally new to you in making a film

I mean, I'd never done stunts like that before. It was the first experience I had

And then obviously like going on to One Piece, which is also a stunt heavy film, it provided the like

Bioflight provided the amazing experience and exposure to that genre and realm

So for sure, like that was totally new. We really had to hit our marks

We had to know our movement down to a tee Preparation was key And also like we shot this very quickly So yeah preparation and safety There not a lot of space

And that's actually, that's, I think, fun from a choreography standpoint. Like, the fight in the bathroom with Marco, he's bigger than me

And that space was really tight. Please open the door. One second

Necessity Breeds is the mother of invention or whatever. so we were able to make it more fun based on those tiny quarters and yeah I hit my head so many times

I messed up my neck so many times by hitting my head on you know everything but like you know the

baggage little overhead baggage things I must have hit my head like 100 times on those we really had

to make our marks and you know safety was so paramount so yes I would say like it felt a lot

more technical. I mean, it was like doing a musical number, you know, everybody had to be

doing it at the right time. Otherwise it just didn't look right. It didn't feel right. And so

we just went through it over and over again in pre-production. But then I had to start shooting

We only had about 25 days to shoot it. So, and only about 21 of them, I think were with me

So we had to get all those action sequences and all those scenes and everything in. Sometimes we'd shoot a two minute action sequence in half a day. So we had to make sure that we

We were completely on target the whole time. And yeah, we just had a great team

And I was really lucky to be able to pull it off and work with them

But it was tough. But I think it shows. And I think the fact that we put that much effort in, I think

makes it more fun and a little bit more sort of loose and exciting. And yeah, I'm very proud of the final product