Alan Ritchson explains the 'creative argument' he had with director Guy Ritchie about how to make their wartime action-comedy 'The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare' even more violent than Ritchie originally wanted.
Sydney Bucksbaum is a writer at Entertainment Weekly covering all things pop culture – but TV is her one true love. She currently lives in Los Angeles but grew up in Chicago so please don't make fun of her accent when it slips out., but when the opportunity finally came along, the experience was a wake-up call to the realities of working alongside a director with a singular creative vision.director.
That's why Ritchson spent"every waking second" that he had in between training and shooting season 2 of his Prime Video action serieslearning how to expertly use a bow and arrow."Me and my stuntman, Ryan Tarran — who's been a double of mine for a while now — would go train together at an archery course to the point where we would be prepared for any scenario that we'd find on set," he says.
"I realized once we got there that there wasn't really a plan for the action," he explains. "But it's a war movie, and we're going into these enemy encampments and slaughtering Nazis, and I read four books about my character before we got there, and this manNazis. He put all his physical energy into stopping this movement, and so he was inventive and creative, and he was sinister in the way that he would go about doing it. And he was cunning.
The action sequence follows Anders in hand-to-hand combat, making his way through the inner hallways of a ship and taking down the many hordes of Nazis in his path. "And Guy loved it," Ritchson reveals. "He was like, 'Great, love it, shoot it. Have fun.' And he leaves. We then spent all day making what we had pitched, and it's in the movieit's in the trailer. When you think of the action of this movie, that's what you think of, that scene.
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