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Collider.com did several on set interviews with the cast of Scott Pilgrim including Jason Schwartzman, Michael Cera, director Edgar Wright and our very own Mary. Continue reading below to find out her experience on set, the fight scenes, and her favorite scene to film :
How’s it been over the course of the movie so far?
WINSTEAD: It’s been great—the hair, or–? Uh, it’s been fun. I’ve gotten to be several different bright colors. Um, which has been cool for me. I’m actually more used to this than I am my normal hair now, so I don’t know. I’m going to be extremely bored, when this is over, with myself.
How many different styles have there been?
WINSTEAD: Uh, there’s three different colors and kind of, yeah.
Were you a fan of the comics?
WINSTEAD: I’ve think we’ve all drawn everything from the book, really. I mean that’s all we have to go on. But it’s been great because I’ve got to talk with Bryan Lee O’Malley a lot and them Michael Bacall on just sort of for backstory and things you don’t get from the books about her. Um, just sort of where she comes from and thinks that happened to her that make her the way she is. Which is cool. Like she still is extremely mysterious in the film and you still don’t really know that much about her, but me as an actress, I got to kind of learn it.
What’s your favorite part of shooting? What do you like the most?
WINSTEAD: think the thing that I’ve found that I really love about this, which was kind of surprising to me, was the stunts. I feel like I’ve fallen in love with doing stunts, and I think part of it is the stunt team is so cool and they’re so much fun to be around and they make you feel so motivated to do a good job that I’ve kind of completely embraced that and that—
Can you talk about some of the stunts? Like what’s the coolest thing–?
WINSTEAD: Yeah. Well we’ve got to do a lot of kung fu choreography, which was really cool. Like I have, you know, like the big hammer that I use, kind of like a staff in a sense. So I get to use that like a really cool weapon. Kung fu style. And it’s just really fun to get to learn that and execute it in a way that looks cool on screen. It just feels really rewarding.
Did you do a lot of training for that stuff?
WINSTEAD: Yeah. I was really, really eager to get into this. Like way back in November I started training on my own and then in January we started training with the stunt team in LA and then came out here in February and continued training and stuff until April when we started shooting. So it was pretty extensive.
Are you doing a lot of wire assists or–?
WINSTEAD: A little bit, yeah. There’s a little wire work, which is so much fun. You can fly, it’s amazing. But I’ve had to mostly just sort of kung fu, you know, ground work. Footwork and stuff like that.
Obviously with you guys condensing so much material into the film, there are things that have not made their way to the screen. Is there anything that you love from the books that you miss that you weren’t able to do in the movie?
WINSTEAD: Oh, man, I don’t know if I—I might get in trouble if—there are a couple of things, but I don’t know. I probably, it would be wrong of me to sort of give that away I think, but yeah. There’s so much material like you said in the books, and there’s so much stuff going on in this movie as it is. It’s going to be like super fast-paced and crazy, and there’s going to be so much to take in. So I think that they had to kind of choose wisely what to keep in, and I think they did a great job.
–your battle with Knives
WINSTEAD: Yes.
What was that like?
WINSTEAD: Awesome. We had a great time fighting each other, and training together and getting to know each other. She’s like the coolest girl in the world and I feel really lucky to have been, you know, put together with her and everything. It was really fun and that’s when I get to bring out my hammer out…It was really cool.
The full interview can be read here.