When I first got here, I felt like this little geek.
This little, like, scrawny, you know, young actress from LA.
One more time. Let's go forward.
And then through all the training, my body had changed
and my mind had changed because I had a totally different focus.
I knew that I was gonna have to put Angie
through some pretty rigorous training.
I got her over to London, and basically put her into boot camp
because there were So many different disciplines
that she was gonna have to learn.
I felt like I was being formed into a special agent.
Up!
We wanted to give her the opportunity
to look as much of an expert as she could
in all the areas that she was gonna have to pursue.
Angie worked six days a week
doing six or seven disciplines per day to get in shape for the film.
Special weight training. She had to go on special diets.
They've got me on a programme of vitamins
and teas and protein shakes
and trying to have that high-protein, low-carb thing.
I'm like this weird experiment.
They're all seeing what they can do to me.
Basically, Angelina started
three months prior to shooting.
What we had to do at first was build her physical strength up
and body tone.
I was extremely out of shape. I hadn't gone to a gym in years.
Just relax.
I've actually changed since I got here. Much more flexible than I was,
gained some weight and put on some muscle.
It's been great. They're really taking care of me.
As well as doing the physical training scheme,
she was then doing a fight training.
Eunice was teaching me kickboxing and really teaching me to fight.
That's good. Just keep it outside. The kick's nice, but get your hips inside.
Good.
I'm trying to learn how to fight properly. And learn how to really fight.
And Eunice is a real fighter
so she's not just teaching me how to pretend in front of the camera.
We're going through it and really trying to learn
all the techniques and really know how to do it.
Get this nice motion there. It's gonna be jab, you gotta go jab and then just kick.
This sort of fighting style we've gone for is more of a street fighter.
She's not a karate expert or anything like that.
But you're using a combination of things,
like the full-contact type karate.
Good. Much better.
I feel like I'm doing a bit of everything.
I mean, we wanted to make it a real fight.
I'm also learning just some good old street fighting
and some knees, and elbows, and head-butts
and, you know, a square punch in the face.
When she punches someone, they don't come back.
I never took yoga before. I thought I'd hate it, but I really like it.
Yoga's just relaxation, and, also, it's muscle tone as well.
It's very good for mind and body.
I wanted her to really be as whole a human being as possible.
And, I think, we wanted her to have that fire and that fight
but also have that really strong centre and be really relaxed.
Angelina would start with yoga at 6:00 a.m.
and then she'd come to do weapons training.
We had military weapons training.
Getting on your knee, and knowing how to position yourself.
Good. One target only.
And they'd set up things all around the place.
Things would flip around. I'd have to duck and dive and roll.
I was losing my mind.
Advance. Up!
She's a perfectionist.
So she wanted to look as good as she could possibly look.
There's nothing worse than to see an actor
that insists he knows how to use a weapon.
Everybody who watches it, who knows anything about weaponry goes,
"Oh, my God. Look at that. He held the gun backwards."
Whichever target you come across first, treat as a maximum threat.
Within the weapons training, she was taught by an SAS instructor.
SAS is the English Special Forces.
Take out him, go for him, stoppage, draw your pistol.
He first just taught her basically how to fire a gun.
Short bursts. Up!
Good.
We had to bear in mind that Angelina was left-handed.
We had to have a specially-made gun that would fire
and she could reload properly with her left hand.
Turn to your left.
I had to learn some things that she does, that now I can do them.
Probably unless you practise it, nobody could do those. They're her thing.
I walk in and here I see my daughter standing
on a column that's been broken down.
Take her guns out and flip them in the air.
And throws them into the holster.
Doesn't anybody realise how unbelievable this is?
To sort of understand her dedication and her ability
would be to, sort of, compare her to an actor
training to be an Olympic athlete
and then being able to perform at the level of an Olympic athlete.
I wanted to be able to do as much as I could.
And so I've worked really hard to be able
to jump in her world and her skin a bit.
She's just done so much. She did fight training, motorbike riding.
She's done Husky dog racing. She's done gymnastic training.
The other day I was trying to think about, "What haven't we done to her?"
And I think the only thing we haven't done is lit her on fire.
Angelina should be the role model for action actors
in that we turned her into something
that you really wouldn't want to meet in a dark alley.
But then maybe again you would.