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How ‘Atomic Blonde’ Got That Insane Stairwell Fight Scene - GQ

“I wanted to do [an fight sequence] where the characters are immersed in action. But it’s a hard sell. It takes a lot of commitment. The logistics are not easy. You can’t change things in editorial. So it’s always a big ask. When it was my own movie, it became a lot easier to say, this is the bold choice we want to make, so let’s do it…We spent four days filming in stairwell. It involved using a lot of old-school camera tricks—pans, wipes, body-crossings—that allowed us editorially to have breaks, to choose between takes, but so it would never feel like we cut out. But the pieces we stitched together were really long, some as long as two minutes.” - Director David Leitch