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If there’s 1 happening Simu Liu knows, it’s however to marque an epic enactment scene. The prima of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Barbie, and the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday has performed successful immoderate beauteous aggravated on-screen showdowns. But nary of those were rather similar what helium did for The Copenhagen Test, the spy thriller bid present streaming connected Peacock.
I sat down with Liu on with his co-star Melissa Barrera (Scream VI, Abigail) and The Copenhagen Test’s stunt squad arsenic portion of IGN Fan Fest to interruption down the mechanics of and inspirations for the show’s high-octane enactment scenes.
While the stunts successful The Copenhagen Test are grounded and brutal compared to the much fantastical enactment Liu has done successful the MCU, they punctual him of immoderate beauteous large video games he’s a instrumentality of.
“[The Copenhagen Test] truly reminds maine of Hitman,” Lius says. “Every mission, the full happening is to debar detection. I retrieve I was playing the game, determination was a detective metre and you would locomotion astir and you would person to conscionable blend successful with radical and not arouse suspicion, and past conscionable sneak disconnected astatine the cleanable constituent wherever cipher was watching. [Also] Splinter Cell. He is not truly covert, but you are expected to beryllium sneaking around.”
The Copenhagen Test follows Alexander Hale (Liu), an quality expert who discovers his encephalon has been “hacked,” which gives a shadowy bureau entree to everything helium sees and hears. Along the mode helium encounters Michelle (Barrera), a quality who’s not everything she archetypal appears to be.
For her part, Barrera says she considers a celebrated N64 spy crippled a spiritual sibling to the show. “I utilized to emotion playing Goldeneye and it was each POV,” Barrera says. “It was like, the weapon [is] close there! [Likewise, The Copenhagen Test] would would beryllium specified a thrilling anxiety-inducing game. Can you imagine?”
Among The Copenhagen Test’s galore knock-down, drag-out combat scenes, respective basal apart. One is aboriginal successful the play wherever Liu and Barrera’s characters squad up to combat a horde of atrocious guys successful a publication store. Later successful the series, they look disconnected against each different during a Mr. and Mrs. Smith-inspired brawl successful an flat kitchen. Key to making those moments realistic was preparation. Enter the show’s stunt coordinator James Mark and combat coordinator Chris Mark.
“Even connected Melissa's days off, she's perpetually asking to travel successful and train,” Chris Mark says. “And 1 of the things I noticed is erstwhile we were teaching her the combat choreography, we would amusement her the moves and stuff, but she wanted to cognize however to bash them for real. So her enactment ethic was incredible. It’s precise uncommon to spot successful a batch of actors.”
“The acting and the storytelling that goes beyond the carnal combat is truly chill to beryllium capable to bash together,” Barrera says. “That's wherefore I wanted to bid truthful overmuch due to the fact that I didn't privation to punch Simu accidentally. I conscionable wanted to drill it truthful that we could bash it together. And that was the amusive portion of that time due to the fact that we really got to beryllium successful it together. They didn't fto maine bash a autumn and I was like, ‘I tin bash the fall!’ And they were like, ‘No, you're not going to bash the fall.’ And past Simu ended up getting kicked successful the face, but not by me!”
“By clip we got to the finale sequence,” James Mark says, “we got much clip than immoderate of the different combat scenes. And it was a hard series and analyzable for some [Simu and Melissa]. Melissa had to bash a ton successful that she was determination astir each time for that sequence. And it's exhausting. It's physically and mentally draining and I deliberation we were doing it astatine nighttime arsenic well, truthful you're connected overnights. It is simply a large product. They truly brought it, they enactment successful the enactment and I'm truly arrogant of that country and what the squad accomplished.”
Liu says that, portion The Copenhagen Test’s fights were grueling, helium appreciated that they were antithetic from enactment sequences he’s participated successful before.
“For Shang-Chi, the enactment connection is precise different,” Liu says. “It's precise wuxia and wushu inspired, truthful there's a batch of flourishes. There's a batch of precise stylized movements and parries that you wouldn't spot successful a thoroughfare fight. Whereas I consciousness similar Alexander's satellite and the satellite of spies is precise overmuch rooted successful subject tactics. And I deliberation that's wherever we started with Chris and James giving america benignant of a palette of moves. We were truly leaning into elbows and knees and utilizing the environment. And if you happened to not person immoderate superpowers oregon didn't cognize kung fu, this is what you would do.”
The Copenhagen Test is streaming present connected Peacock.
Stay tuned for much IGN Fan Fest this week including 2 days of livestreams Wednesday and Thursday with much than 80 exclusive reveals from Mortal Kombat II, Crimson Desert, LEGO Batman, and more.
Michael Peyton is the Senior Editorial Director of Events & Entertainment astatine IGN, starring amusement contented and sum of tentpole events including IGN Live, San Diego Comic Con, gamescom, and IGN Fan Fest. He's spent 20 years moving successful the games and amusement industry, and his adventures person taken him everyplace from the Oscars to Japan to Buenos Aires, Argentina. Follow him connected Bluesky @MichaelPeyton
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