Today was the day, of all the scenes, that I was the most nervous about.  This is the big fight scene between my character and Jerico.  This takes place after the opening "cabin siege" and is where I "take him in".  It was originally scheduled to mostly take plave in the water in front of a waterfall.  But with the rains the past few weeks, the water was neck deep at the base of the falls (not to mention frickin' freezing!  It was only like 60 degrees the day we filmed this.) and there were some pretty violent rapids.  Mark got in the water to check it out (gotta love a director that won't make you do anything he won't do), but deemed it was too damn cold to film anything of substance in it, so he pretty much had to scrap the entire scene he had planned and choreograph a new fight scene on the spot.
 

    The reason I was so nervous about this scene was actually twofold:  1) The footing on the ledge we were mostly fighting on was very slippery and jagged.  One slip and you would be in the rapids.  And 2) I haven't been in a fight, been hit or, more importantly, threw a decent punch since I was about 18 years old.  I was REALLY afraid of throwing a punch "like a girl" and not being convincing at all.  Apparantly, the punches looked decent though.  Mark played back some of the scenes after we filmed them (the magic of digital video) and he was very happy with how everything looked, so I felt better about it.

    OUCH!  I got popped....seriously.  It actually may have been during the scene pictured on the left.  During one of the punch sequences, I lost my footing and moved forward a little too far....BAM...right between the eyes.  And Scott is not a small guy...he's got some serious guns.  And apparantly, pretty decent aim as he hit me DIRECTLY between the eyes, right across the bridge of my nose.   No bruise, black eye or battle scar to show for...but it hurts like hell every time I have to blow my nose...Damn allergies!!!!

    I'll be uploding more pictures from this scene in a few hours or so....