The Secret Recipe ‘The Mother’ Used to Make Those Stunts SO EPIC

The stunt sequences in J Lo’s The Mother are pretty epic and the film’s director says that’s due in part to focusing on something else besides the stunt. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
The fight scenes in Jennifer Lopez's new action film The
Mother are being heralded as some of the best in years,
and that's due in part to their originality and wild factor,
But the film's director Nicky Carro says something else was
as important in executing them as well, focusing on the
scene's emotions just as much as its stunts. She tells
Indie Wire, it wasn't just a case of doing cool stuff.

(00:26):
Though cool stuff is fun and I enjoy it as
an audience member, the storytelling has to have the same
emotional logic you would find in any dramatic scene. You
can actually still apply those same rules to action. Everything
The Mother did in a fight scene was driven by
the emotional logic of protecting her child and her keen
for sise intelligence.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
The Mother is on Netflix that's

Speaker 1 (00:49):
Direct from Hollywood.