"I remember that night," her co-star and fellow Oscar winner Ke Huy Quan recalls. "Everybody was scared."
"It happened, and I was like, 'Oh God, oh God, oh God,'" she remembers. "I took a second, recovering, having that moment, and then 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. Just bring me ice and Tylenol, and I will see a doctor in a minute.'"
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"Rose, the character, is a tough bitch, and I was like 'I'm not going to be the wimp on the set right now,'" she recalls. "Absolutely not."
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Ariana DeBose (AD): Well, I don't necessarily believe in coincidence anymore. I believe in divine choreography. But, I watched this one walk through his award season with such joy. And [he was] so present in the room and happy to meet everyone that he came into contact with. I think that kind of energy is infectious. So, I was very emotional, like with genuine happiness, for him when his moment came, because I thought it was so deserved.
AD: And I was always like, "Yeah let's go!"
Ke, this is your first major film after winning the Oscar for Everything Everywhere All At Once. What made you want to sign up for Love Hurts?
AD: And he led so beautifully.
AD: This was the first opportunity I'd gotten to do full-fledged sequences. I appeared in Argyle, and I smack somebody over the head, but that's a very different thing than what I'm doing in this movie. I was so excited at that the opportunity. Yes, my dance background was very helpful because to me, fight choreo is all dance. It's the same palette, just different colors here and there. I was very game, and I was a sponge, and I put my best foot forward. It was also very inspiring because, I did my little bit, but this one, like the whole movie, is ratatatata, high-intensity yoga poses, his foot on somebody's neck. You can't not be inspired when you're working with this one.
AD: He's a black belt!
What was the training like for those sequences? How long did you prepare for those?
KHQ: In the very beginning, I told our producers that if I'm gonna do this, I wanna do all the fights myself. 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. I knew what it takes to make these fights look good, so I trained with our guys for almost three months to get myself physically ready. It was a lot of bruises and aches and pains.
KHQ: Salt baths. Tylenol.
KHQ: For me it's the kitchen fight, because that was the first fight we shot. In the very beginning you see King (Marshawn Lynch) and Otis (André Eriksen) come in and beat the sh-t out of Marvin Gable. For that one particular shot where they slam me onto the counter before I turn and fight back, I remember I had this thick pad on to protect myself, and every time I landed the pad would stick out of my my wardrobe. It didn't look natural, so I ripped it off. We did it again and again and again from different angles, and I felt a slight pain on my chest, but I was expecting it. I didn't know the damage until the next day when I was getting ready, and Echo, my wife, was standing at the doorway. Her eyes teared up, and she said, "Are you okay? Are you in pain?" I looked in the mirror, and my entire chest was just black and blue. She went to the production office, and said, "Please order a lot of salt." It was salt baths every night.
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KHQ: I did. When we were thinking of who could play Cliff, Marvin Gable's mentor, there was only one name and that was Sean. I was so excited to have this reunion on screen after 40 years. So I texted him. I said, "Hey Sean, our producers are gonna reach out. Please say yes." And he did, and that day when we were shooting another Goonie showed up. My entertainment attorney, Jeff Cohen, aka Chunk. It was really a nice Goonies reunion. Our crew were really happy. It was a wonderful trip down memory lane.
Ariana, you've done a lot of Broadway work in the past. I wondered if you have plans to go back there anytime soon, and what your dream roles would be.
Key is that something that you would be interested in doing at some point?
AD: Honestly, you are so at home on a movie set, but I would say if there was ever the right thing, you would be very good. Look at all the multitasking you do in our film.
AD: Perhaps I will build a moment for you, my darling.
AD: I recognize my privilege in saying this, but beyond working at a dance studio, I don't think I've had another job. I only know how to do this. I don't have any other skills.
AD: That job found you when you needed it, and then it went as you didn't need it anymore. And aren't we all lucky that didn't work out? Because now we have you as an action star.
This interview was condensed and edited for length and clarity.
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