So I got to play Contessa Valentina

in the Marvel Comics universe.

That name still makes me laugh.

I first appear in the post-credits Black Widow, and then in Black Panther,

Wakanda, forever, and then I'm the bad guy in Thunderbolts. And I have to say, the whole thing,

it was just a blast. In the original Thunderbolts script, there's this scene where my character

really beats the crap out of a guy and takes

his walkie-talkie and screams, ceasefire, ceasefire. And I told Jake Schreier, the director,

that I wanted to do my own stunts for that scene. And he was like, sure, okay, great.

And you have to understand, Marvel had this huge stunt facility in Atlanta.

Like it was like a massive gymnasium.

And when I walked in, Lewis Pullman was getting levitated on wires over here.

And Florence Pugh was getting crushed by fake rocks over there and stuff.

And, I mean, it was just so Hollywood.

It was so fabulous.

And my fight, which was maybe about 15 or 12 seconds long, turned out to be kind of complicated.

And it was all choreographed to beats.

Like, one, grab a gun, two, elbow to face, three, spin and kneel and four, leap up and

scream, ceasefire, ceasefire. You know, it was like very choreographed and really broken down.

And after a couple of hours of rehearsing, I was so drenched, and the stunt guys were drenched,

and we routineed it, and we rehearsed where the camera would be, and we altered the sequence,

and we did all this choreography.

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