The actual fights themselves are very demanding. You don't want to drain yourself. But it pumps you up, gets you in the zone. It's a good way of getting you into the zone for the scene.

You really have to act your pants off to stay alive. I thrive on that; I rise to the occasion of the circumstances.

Certainly, I look for different characters 'cause I always like to keep people guessing, and I also don't like to get typecast.

The only way you can influence your fate is to put your soul into your performance and hope it registers with the audience.

The axe is fifteen pounds. You have to make sure you don't hurt or hit someone. And hit the beats, because they have five cameras. It has to look real. That in itself becomes challenging because you have to learn it straight away.

There's always your initial trepidation about doing a remake, but that was alleviated by the fact that it was a prequel. Immediately, that gives you creative license to really recreate and explore and put a new stamp on the genre.

It's a significant question: should black people only adopt black children, and white people white children?