Victoria Mahoney’s approach to movie-making has been inspired by Christopher McQuarrie.
Victoria Mahoney has been inspired by Christopher McQuarrie
The Old Guard 2 director and Christopher – who is a frequent collaborator with Tom Cruise – are good friends, and Victoria has revealed how the filmmaker has influenced her approach to shooting action scenes.
Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Victoria shared: “McQ is a very dear friend.
“I will say that I am a child of Korean action movies, so my connection to emotion and action comes from the amount of Korean films that I watch. Korean filmmakers and stunt teams do it so well and so honestly and so plausibly and so feverishly that it is just ingrained. So I actually didn’t know we shouldn’t be doing that.
“What McQ did for me — by way of our geeky spitball discussions that are endless year upon year — is [making sure] you preserve the emotionality in action as much as any other aspect of the drama surrounding the action. One of the things I enjoy most about action-drama is having a little bit of drama buck right up against action and have them both stand on their own.”
Meanwhile, Victoria recently revealed that Charlize Theron dedicated “1,000 percent of herself” to The Old Guard 2.
The director praised Charlize for her whole-hearted approach to the project.
She told Deadline: “The thing about Charlize is, she comes hard, and she dedicates 1,000 percent of herself to every sequence, whether it’s trauma or action, and it’s visible.
“People know that, for many years…
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