I am the producer, writer, director and one of the stars of the new Charlie's Angels, and this is notes on the scene.

Charlie's Angel has been around since the late seventies.

It was an iconic TV show about beauties with brains kicking butt in a job that few women had ever done before, which was law enforcement.

I want to get involved because I wanted to tell a story about women at work.

I really felt like this could be a celebration of women working together of a sense of sorority and camaraderie.

This new generation is about a corporate whistleblower.

Her name is Elena offline.

She works at a big tech company that's putting out a really cool new sort of power source in the world that's sustainable, et cetera, et cetera.

And she knows that it's it can be weaponized.

And we based this story line on a lot of corporate malfeasance stories that we're hearing about all the time.

This woman goes to meet with Charlie's Angels because they're the only people that believe her and want to help support her.

And this scene is her introduction to spy craft and what the Angels are capable of doing.

If we're in the building when they do that next security suite, we're going to jump in prison.

One of my inspirations.

Waas The end of the Thomas Crown Affair starring Pierce Brosnan and Renee Reso.

When Pierce Brosnan goes to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and dresses asthma, greet in his little bowler cap and then he has tons of other MMA greets run around the building and they watch it on a screen and get completely confused about what's going on.

Okay, so the game is afoot, and this is where you see the security screens and this guy we've already established, we don't really like very much, he told Elena earlier in the day.

Who he's obsessed with.

She's smile more.

Ladies don't like that.

So he's our bad guy's gonna close it rocks.

He put the system, says he's already mayor.

There's a glitch, I think the computer things alone.

1/2 luminous.

So he's just realized that Elena Hoffman, who he's obsessed with, and he knows exactly what she looks like, that this person from behind is supposed to be Elena offline.

But in fact, if you see the idea that she just swiped.

This is Ben Ludvig, who she's already taken out earlier in the morning.

So this is how she got into the building.

We're doing a sort of again a game of three card monte like Where is Elena offline?

Is this Elena Hofland?

If that is Alina Hofland, why does she have this guy's I D?

It's a lot to process, which is what part of the fun of watching the Penis, this scene we also talk about as bull cuts and bull cuts.

Unfortunately, don't cover the back of your neck.

And as you'll see, I wanted to make sure that when you're watching this sequence, you can't tell from behind who's who.

That's part of the game.

And so we had to make the wings a little bit longer and not just bowl cut.

So they're like long bull cuts, and we made them hombre cause hombres just cool fun.

Fact.

This actor actually auditioned for another role in the movie, and we decided that he'd be a really good Ralph, and so he came and played it for us.

But David Studer is he's really a big actor in Germany.

So now the gig is up and they're gonna start closing in.

Right now, I'm sending you an image of get all our guys.

I want her detained for questioning.

Yes, I need you to exhibit some attention seeking behavior.

So many ideas.

She really did about 50 takes.

This is Kristen Stewart, and it just said, Play around on camera, do whatever you want.

And she was like, Give me some ideas, like, Act like a monkey.

You walk like an elephant dance, Do you?

Whatever.

You're just jumping jacks and script.

It was scripted, is just jumping jacks.

And we just said, Let's just play around.

She's so game In this film, you'll see this character is someone he really believed will literally do anything.

And that's what she's showing here.

They're walking around with a mobile device that has all of the cameras on it.

Here they come, closing in.

Thank you.

One of things that happened before I started making this movie was I wanted to talk with female stunt coordinators about how women do action because we all know that it's probably different from how men do action, and I really want to make the action in this movie is specific to Charlie's Angels movie.

I want to understand.

Can a £130 woman actually overtake a £250 man?

What are some of the strategies?

They would employ Thio to defeat somebody, and it was really helpful to hear from from them about what women do or should.

D'oh!

To help defend themselves.

So first things first.

If there's a gun in any situation, you're very likely to get shot.

And it's not like disarm him, take the gun and shoot disarming somebody of the guns also really hard to do, and it's still likely that it's gonna go off during that process.

So one of the things that happens in this scene is that the first thing Savina does when this guy comes in is she makes sure that the gun is out of the way and it's not, for she's not going to use it, and neither is he.

So she's waiting, bang, gone and not only gone but totally out of the scene.

And that's just helpful because it means, like we don't have to worry about the gun.

That's a gun I'm going to go off So the guns out of the way.

The other thing that stunt coordinators who are women said draw them into a small space is possible because then they don't have the full reach of their power for punching and hitting and kicking.

They're really good at climbing like Kristen Stewart's characters, like a little monkey in here.

She can literally you could use their body as leverage to get up and over them.

I felt like if we put them in this really cool space and of course I want to make something very graphic as well that we could put them in here.

She's now in a small space.

We can understand how a woman fights Thea.

Other funny thing I'll tell you about this scene is every time you see them from this side angle.

We actually moved the entire sequence into this stall because this wall we were able to chainsaw out and I got to use the chains on set, which was very exciting.

This wall was the one we were going to remove, and when they removed it, the whole set shook and it didn't work.

So we had to.

At the end of the day, chainsaw through a wall to shoot all the side angles of this sequence.

So the other thing is, I love playing with some of the troops in action movies, especially dude movies and Mission.

Impossible had a really fun bathroom scene.

I thought.

This is like a small image.

The other thing that the scene showcases really is how much training Kristen Stewart did.

How much her own fighting she did.

She was incredible.

All the women where L.

A.

Belinsky does almost all of her own stunts in the movie.

Naomi Scott did some training as well.

They all did weapons training, driving in a lot of kick boxing and Thai kickboxing on dhe fight choreography.

So this this is well choreographed.

This guy was the stunt guy that we used the whole time.

He was in the rehearsal with Kristen, so she was super confident in playing around with him on the day because the thing is, as much as you choreograph it, the end of the day, you kind of wanted to look really, really.

And when adrenaline comes comes into the equation, which it does when you're actually calling action on set, you never know what's gonna happen, and the two of them were really comfortable each other.

So they were able Thio, um she was really able to give it to him in the scene.

A lot of elbows because it's a pressure point.

We're good fighting point for women.

So one of the reason they're wearing red boots is for this exact moment in the movie.

I want to make sure that the feet were really iconic as well in this scene right now.

If you if you had a toilet in here in the toilet in here than what you would say, Look, I mean, we're gonna put a little pressure on it.

What you see is that, um right now there's a girl crouched, She's pretty.

She's got cute here.

A crouched on this really here.

And then Kristen is on this toilet so cute.

And then she's about Thio.

Jump down right now.

Bang out and out she comes.

So as you can tell, I don't draw especially under pressure, especially toilets.

The next bit of the scene that was written to the script always was this idea of like women's invisibility, and we play with that as a theme throughout the movie and just little kind of Easter eggs.

And because invisibility in Charlie's Angels is a total superpower, as is underestimation, this is just a little nod right here when she when the the sensor doesn't recognize her that she's invisible, then you know very easy way to transition of this scene, because again, it's just part of a much bigger set piece, just blind.

The guy.

Also very good advice for anyone in a bathroom is being attacked.

Just put stuff in guyseyes also kick him in the balls.

So that's actually the number one thing that this stunt coordinator told us.

Go for the balls first.

My film school has been my career as an actor, and I've been on so many sets and worked in so many different people that you kind of start to understand and get into a rhythm with people.

And I just try and give as much like love and care to people, make them feel confident, excited about being on set every day.

Working with a female ensemble now was not a coincidence at all.

I think I really wanted to build on the themes of sorority and camaraderie and teamwork, that I established in the work and pitch perfect, and I just love that feeling.

It's something something that runs through most of what I make as a producer and as a writer, director and I.

This is not not an exception.

It's really the rule.