We went to see Barbie last night and at one part in the movie where it got super quiet, you could hear a bomb go off and shake the walls from the theater next to us because they were watching Oppenheimer. The way everyone started laughing💀
me, as i watch a hot lesbian character do something sociopathic: i support women's rights but more importantly i support women's wrongs
Marvel has the best stunt coordinators and fight choreographers and all these amazing people working for them. It’s an apartment fight and I think they might have had floor plans for it at that point. I had no idea what it looked like, so I just had to write the scene thinking, “What’s in an Eastern European apartment?” I wrote it as best I could with cool bits. Maybe a gun is hidden in the butter drawer or whatever. It was probably too long, but I ended the fight with them smashing into the bathroom. I always love — I think it goes back to True Lies — when people slam through the porcelain, a toilet or something. That just feels so gnarly to me. I ended it in the bathroom and it was the shower curtain. It doesn’t matter who wins this fight, Natasha versus Yelena. Also I can’t establish too much of a power dynamic disadvantage either way. They are about to go on an adventure together. The important thing for character and story is, they care about each other, but they don’t trust each other. Maybe there’s a visual way to get them to connect again. “All right. Shower curtain. Choke each other, eye to eye.” There’s something in seeing each other’s eyes that makes them go, “OK, I trust you enough to talk.” Then our fight team gets ahold of it and they immediately get in on that. “This is what we need to get to.” All the other fight stuff, they talked to me a bit. I was like, “Yeah, it’s important that they both have wins and they both look cool,” but recognize that the most important thing is we end this fight at a really intense, violent stalemate where a kind of connection is revealed between the two of them. I was really proud of that. I was so happy when [fight coordinator] James Young or Rob Inch, our stunt coordinator, came to me with the pages. He said, “It’s not the bathroom, but we’ve got 18-foot walls with these giant window curtains.”
— Eric Pearson, screenwriter of Black Widow (2021)
