Peacemaker's Emilia Harcourt Actor Details Intense Fight Scene Training
Peacemaker actress Jennifer Holland explains the fight training she had to go through to play Emilia Harcourt. As of last week, HBO Max's Peacemaker is up and running with new episodes arriving every Thursday. The series is a spin-off of last summer's The Suicide Squad, a bloody and profane effort directed by James Gunn. The film introduced audiences to Peacemaker (John Cena), a man so determined to achieve peace, he doesn't care who he has to kill to get it. The Suicide Squad nearly killed him off, but a post-credits scene found him recovering from his wounds in a hospital.
Peacemaker then picks up with the anti-hero (officially named Christopher Smith) joining up with a new team known as Project Butterfly. In addition to new characters like Vigilante (Freddie Stroma) and Leota Adebayo (Danielle Brooks), Peacemaker features some additional Suicide Squad holdovers. A.R.G.U.S. agents John Economos (Steve Agee) and Harcourt are prominent members of Project Butterfly, which has given the actors and Gunn the chance to expand upon their characters. In the case of Harcourt, Peacemaker has pulled her out of the office and pushed her right into the action.
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That means Holland had to up her training regimen in a big way. Speaking to Screen Rant while promoting Peacemaker, Holland detailed the intense stunt training she went through while making the series. Whenever she wasn't needed on set, she would be perfecting her moves. Holland said:
I did. Anytime I wasn't on set, really, I was working with the stunt team, and the fight team, and the tactical guy on just training. We did a ton of just general fight training, they taught me a lot of basics of certain
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