Ariana DeBose and Ke Huy Quan Talk Oscar Wins and Shooting an Action Movie (Exclusive)

We have worked too hard. We are on schedule

Almost there. Almost there. We are finishing this. I watched this one walk through his awards season with such, I don't know, joy

Like, very hopeful energy, but joy and support for other people. And I think that kind of energy is infectious

So I was very emotional, like, with genuine happiness for him. when his moment came, you know

because I thought it was so deserved. And the Oscar goes to..

Keyboard Clive. Especially given your story, my love. But I think, I don't know, wasn't it

you told me this story about Echo. Well, I mean, I remember that night well

when you opened the envelope and announced my name with so much emotion

I was so touched. and I remember, you know, seeing you again at various events

and I always go up to you and give you a big hug and say, Ali, come on, let's do a movie together

And I was always like, yeah, let's go. So when this came

and we were wondering who can play Rose and when her name was brought up

I immediately jumped up with joy and I said, yes, she is perfect

And I said, please give her whatever she wants so she can say yes

You know and thank God you said yes and honestly I could not have asked for a better partner, lover, partner in crime

You know? Yeah. No, I feel exactly the same. I just love the mess out of this one

You know in the beginning when they sent me the script and I read it I was so confused because I didn see myself as Marvin Gable In fact I never saw myself as the number one on a call sheet And honestly I think that has to do with you know all those years of just you know

auditioning for, you know, minor roles. So how can I possibly be a leading man

In fact, I was so confused. I reached out to my favorite filmmakers of all time

I reached out to Stephen. Yeah. Steven Spielberg, and he was so gracious with his time

And he said, hey, that sounds great. You should do it. All of a sudden, my own internal narrative

everything that I was telling myself started to slightly change and look at things differently

And really, and it was really then that I began to see myself

as Marvin Gable and the possibility of me leading a movie. This was the first opportunity I had gotten to do full-fledged sequences

I know I've appeared in Argyle and I smacked somebody up in the head

but that's a very different thing than what I'm doing in this movie. And yes, my dance background is very helpful because to me

fight choreo, dance, it's all a dance. It's the same palette, just different colors here and there

When Ari was training with our action team, and I was just watching from the side

and I remember thinking, wow, she's really good. And I went to her and said

have you done this before? And she says, no. So I was really surprised

and I think that dancing background Really helpful. Even though it's different

but it's also very similar because when you doing these fight sequence a lot has to do with the rhythm the pacing For me I quite comfortable I know these fights very well

He's a black belt. Yeah, and it was such a wonderful opportunity

to be able to show the world something that I've always wanted

In the very beginning, I told our producers in JoJo that if I'm going to do this, I want to do all the fights myself

And I mean, honestly, sometimes I scare myself because that was such a big statement

Mentally, I think I can do it because of my background. But I haven't done it for so long

And I knew what it takes to make these fights look good

So I trained with our guys very early on for almost three months

to get myself physically ready. And even then, showing up on set and doing it is very different

because, one, you know, we don't have the luxury like, you know

they have in Hong Kong where they spend a lot of resources on these fights

And this is what we were trying to aim for, to pay an homage to those Jackie Chan, Sam Moore movies

And because of the time constraint. And also, you know, the crew, our crew, you know, they've never shot anything like this before

So aside from all the bruises and aches and pains. A lot of ice

A lot of ice. A lot of bath. What is it? Salt bath

Salt bath. Tyronole. Yes. It was a day where I did take a shoulder to the nose Yeah I remember that night And you know it was just it was just a mishap and I remember like oh we had one more day left of shooting Everybody was scared and I it happened

I was like oh god oh god oh god I dug deep and we continued shooting because I was like nope we

have worked too hard we are on schedule we are almost there we are finishing this. For me it's

the kitchen fight. And for that one particular shot where they slammed me onto the counter before

I really turned and fight back, I remember I had this thick pad on just to protect myself

And somehow every time I land, you know, the pad would show. It would just stick out of my wardrobe

and it didn't look natural and I didn't like it. So I ripped it off. You did that without the pad

I did it with the pad and every time we did it again and again and again and, you know

from different angles and I felt a slight pain on my chest but it was okay because I

was expecting it. That's how you, that's what I learned and I didn't know the

damage until the next day when I was getting ready to go back to set and Echo

my wife, was standing at the doorway and all of a sudden she just like her eyes

teared up and she said are you okay? Are you in pain? And I didn't know what she

was talking about. And I look in the mirror and I see my entire chest was just black and blue. It

was just all blues. And that's when she went, you know, back to the, you know, to the production

office and said, please order a lot of, you know, a lot of bags of salt. And it was that night on

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