’12 hours of non-stop stunts’: Why was The Lady and the Dragon the most grueling shoot for Millie Bobby Brown?

From Stranger Things to Godzilla Vs. Kong, Millie Bobby Brown used for muscle shots. However, none are superior to Lady and the Dragon. In this film, directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, the actress plays Elodie, a young woman betrothed to a prince. While he thinks he’s living in a fairy tale, he’s thrown into a dragon’s lair to be sacrificed. There is only one goal to survive: to find a way out.

Do your own stunts

This heroine adds to the long list of characters “evil“Performed by a British star. For Lady and the Dragon, shot entirely in London studios, Millie Bobby Brown did all her stunts herself, all without rehearsing.”You can’t really train to be hurt by a dragon“, he jokes.

“I wanted everything to be based on my instinct, to portray it in a way that he was experiencing it, and when you’re practicing, it can seem too repetitive.he continues. I didn’t want it to appear that way. I have never come home as tired as I was after shooting this movie.“

For the purposes of this film, Millie Bobby Brown had to climb the entire set, swim, run, jump in the air attached to a harness. “Sometimes it was 12 hours of non-stop stunts and it was really tiring“- she adds. All without any injuries on the set and without the weight of the dress, which contained seven different parts.

Was it bad or not?

When asked what she thinks of this “bad” heroine image associated with her on screen, the Stranger Things star bluntly replies: “I don’t wake up in the morning thinking, ‘I want to be a strong woman!’, a role model for everyone,” because I can’t put that pressure on myself.“

“But I wake up and tell myself that I will, he admits. JI’m going to show a part of me that may not be perfect and may have flaws, but I need to so I don’t set a standard for girls that is unattainable. And I think that’s what’s wrong.“.”

Commentaries collected by Thomas Desroches, Paris, March 4, 2024.

The Lady and the Dragon Available on Netflix.