Associated Press interview.

[andrew r]

One more for you all:

AP: Given the more serious films the two of you often do, a big summer action movie doesn't seem like an obvious choice.

Ricci: But this is the coolest, because it's the Wachowski brothers, and also, it's not your average cheesy big blockbuster. It's really awesome.

Hirsch: There's something just so wonderfully rebellious about the idea of being like some serious actor and having to just do those kind of movies, where I wanted to spit on the idea and just do something so wrong. But it's so right.

Ricci: And so much about choices for me is about what's going to be fun. This sounded like so much fun. You get to go do an action-y film and a really stylized character. To me, that's fun.

AP: The racing sequences were created by computer animation. Was there any actual driving involved?

Hirsch: I'd skateboard around set, but I don't think I actually drove a car once the entire time. ... But the thing they put us on, they put us on this thing called a gimbal, which is basically a braced piece, like a rollercoaster car, suspended up in the air with a hydraulic rig. That has a lot of power. If they crank that thing max it could break your neck from the force, the G force is that strong. They would just thrash us around. I think I spent a total of 20 days on the gimbal.

AP: Out of how many days?

Hirsch: Out of 60.

Ricci: I was only in there one day, in the gimbal. ... It happened to be a Saturday, so the brothers were in charge of how fast and hard the car was getting punched, instead of, like, a second-unit director. And they got really into it. I was just like, OK, whatever, we'll go with this. But I like being bruised up. I actually had to get out of the car and vomit and get back in....

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