Then they’d swap us around and do different variations. So I would be reading with Jurnee, and then I would be reading with another actress. That progressed to reading with lots of other women. We got in a room, talked, improvised and had fun. Then I had a chemistry read with Margot, which was great. I initially met with Cathy, and we talked about the role and her version of Gotham that she was creating, which was really exciting to me. There were a lot of auditions there were a lot of meetings. So I took bits and pieces of that from the comics and ran with it in my own way. There’s also the fact that she’s kind of a loner, and she doesn’t really work well with other people, which manifests in her personality. So I think we took little bits and pieces from everything, but ultimately, we distilled it down to who she seems to be, which is this really fierce, ferocious fighter who is fighting for revenge on behalf of her family. I was given quite a bit of freedom from the creative team of Cathy, Margot, Sue, Bryan and everyone involved to just read whatever I wanted, as much as I wanted, and take inspiration from whatever bits helped me or fit this version of the character that we’ve created in the movie. (Laughs)īecause there are so many different comic book runs involving Huntress, how did you make sense of all that material in order to inform your version of the character? That’s just the choice I’ve made, but I’m not sure what the creators intended. Oh, gosh! I don’t know if it’s the correct pronunciation, but I say Hell-AY-na Bertinelli. I have a very important first question: HELL-en-a, Hell-AY-na or Hell-ee-na? In a recent conversation with THR, Winstead also discusses her preparation for Huntress, how Death Proof compares to Birds of Prey, and her perspective on playing Lucy McClane in Die Hard 4. So they threw me on a bicycle in front of a green screen, and that was my one pickup shot for Birds of Prey.”

… It was supposed to be me, as Huntress, on the motorcycle, but it was just a close-up. “So, they flew out the Huntress outfit, I put it on, they got me in front of a green screen with the Bangkok crew. “We actually did a tiny shot in Bangkok while I was shooting Kate, which had some of the same producers as Birds of Prey,” Winstead explains. Since Winstead was shooting her upcoming Netflix actioner, Kate, in Asia, movie magic was needed for her one and only pickup shot. In September 2019, Birds of Prey underwent additional photography in order to amp up the film’s action quota.

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