Winstead plays the title character’s love interest Ramona V. Flowers in the big screen adaptation of the graphic novel and she completed a variety of stunts, including backflips, high kicks and tumbling down stairs.

Her favourite scenes involved swinging a giant hammer, but Winstead admits she hurt herself with the weapon, injuring her shoulder and developing tendonitis.

She tells Britain’s Total Film magazine, “I get to use it like a really cool weapon, kung fu-style. It was just really fun to get to learn that and execute it in a way that looks cool on screen. It feels really rewarding. It was tough, but I definitely felt tough and crazy.”

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Mike Hilleary: Looking at your filmography one would think you have a serious affinity for scary movies.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead: I know. I don’t know if I have an affinity for it or if it has an affinity for me or both. I’m not sure.

What is it about them that you enjoy so much as an actress?

I guess I like wondering if they’re going to scare me, trying to figure out if the film is going work on that level. I’m a pretty tough scare, so I enjoy that sort of test of it.

What have you been working on today?

Today we were shooting a scene that kind of goes back a little bit more towards the beginning of the film where things first start going wrong. Someone gets attacked, and it’s kind of a difficult scene because it involves about 15 people. Everyone at the base comes out and finds this bloody massacre out in the snow. Trying to deal with everyone and all of our reactions is pretty intense. But it’s fun. In between stuff it feels like we’re all in school or something just hanging out.

How would you describe Wright as a director?

He’s just one of those guys who knows what he wants. He had more faith in me than I had in myself, I think, because at that point I had to fight for everything. Nobody was offering me anything. To think that somebody would be offering me this part that so many other actresses would have wanted, it’s still a crazy thought. I honestly don’t know what goes on in his head or how he goes from one point to the other, because it really is just all in his head. He knows exactly what he wants, and whatever he says you do it and you know it’s going to be great. He has such a specific vision, a specific style. He’s extremely funny and charming and smart and he brings all of that to everything that he does. All of that together I think is what makes his films so great.

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“She’s so great, she’s so funny!” the 25-year-old actress gushed to HollywoodLife.com exclusively at the film’s LA premiere July 27. “The two of us, we were just sitting up there watching the first fight [scene] in the balcony together for a week and a half, and we were always talking about gossip, film news and just gabbing about everything!”

She added, “She’s so smart and so funny and such a fantastic actress. It’s just so great she’s in this movie!”

Anna, 24, has another admirer in star Michael Cera, although he’s adamant that he wouldn’t like to appear with his co-star in her fourth Twilight Saga film, Breaking Dawn. “I’d rather be in the Up in the Air sequel,” he told us with a laugh.

Hello Mary Elizabeth and welcome on ComicUs. Shall we start with the interview right now or do we have to defeat your seven evil ex-interviewer first…?

[Laughs] I think I’m going to give you the permission to start the interview, there won’t be any evil exes come calling.

Did you know the comic book by Bryan Lee O’Malley before taking the part? Did Edgar Wright recommend you all to read it as starting material or did he prefer you to concentrate on the script of the film version?

I read the books because Edgar Wright introduced me to them. I had a meeting with him and he told me he was going to be adapting these books to a film and thought I should take a look at them. So I went home and had the first three books, because that was how many were out at this time and I was blown away. I just thought, you know, EW combining that source materials would be such an amazing combination and I was so excited of being part of that project.

You have been involved in different action and fighting scenes too, were they hard scenes to perform?

Well, it was really challenging, and we trained for a few months together every day, eight hours a day, doing fight choreography and trainings. And we worked with an amazing stunt team who really wanted to bring out the best from us, and they kinda would watch out how it works and what work at it and what wont’ work at it. So in the end I was really able to do everything; it was really empowering to be in front of the camera and to be able to do all the stuffs. Too exciting.

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