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- For the film’s climax, second unit director Mic Rogers, along with Gary Paul’s
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- stunt drivers, choreographed a complex and actio
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- n-packed chase sequence through the
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- streets of downtown Los Angeles. The scene, which was filmed over several nights,
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- incorporated about 20 stunt professionals, including the actor’s stunt doubles, a dozen
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- stunt drivers and a helicopter pilot.
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- In the CATCH THAT KID, Santa Clarita production facility, on a hill right above
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- the go-
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- track, is a large water tower where Maddy practices her climbing skills. For
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- Kristen Stewart, the climbing and other physical rigors that came with the role were a fun
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- challenge.
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- Prior to filming, she spent two weeks training with Lisa Coleman, a co-
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- founder and instructor at Yo! Basecamp, a Northern California rock climbing facility.
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- Discovered by stunt coordinator Gary Paul, the 90-pound professional rock climber also
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- doubled fo
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- r Stewart for some of the more dangerous climbing sequences.
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- “Lisa’s not a stunt person, she’s an actual climber,” Stewart says. “It was really
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- cool because she took me down to a rock studio to help me with the climbing scenes and
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- to make them look more
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- realistic. Trust me, it’s a lot harder than you think. You have to
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- have major strength.”
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- Maddy’s years of climbing experience come in handy when she attempts to scale
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- the walls of a high
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- -tech bank safe room to reach a vault suspended high in the air abov
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- e.
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- Meyer’s safe room set in Santa Clarita was actually 40 feet tall but through the use of
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- CGI set extensions, it will appear 120 feet tall, with the vault hovering 100 feet above
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- ground.
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- Meyer’s biggest challenge was creating the bank’s complex safe room and vault. He
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- wanted to incorporate elements from the old world and blend them into the new. “As
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- you’re proceeding through the old bank you start to see elements that get a little more
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- futuristic, become a little more out of the ordinary, and a little
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- more unbelievable,” he
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- says. “The ultimate challenge is to get through the entire building, past all the security
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- monitors, through the mazes, the locked doors and the corridors that finally lead you to
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- the safe. And just when you think it can’t get any
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- bigger, it gets bigger. Just when you
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- think it can’t get any scarier and complicated, it does.”