Name: Learning How to Sword Fight in 10 Hours | Vanity Fair
Uploaded: 2020-03-06T19:00:21.000Z
Duration: 20 min 35 s
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I'm an actress and I have to learn how to sword fight

I am a last minute replacement to play Romeo

in a gender swap production of Romeo and Juliet.

and I do not know the fight choreography.

So Robb Hunter, fight choreographer extraordinaire,

is going to teach me how to do the sword fights.

Thank you so much for taking time out of your day

So I know we have a limited amount of time today

And we're gonna need to get you up to speed

- The fight that you're gonna do with Tybalt is a fight

and you're just gonna be trying to swing it at her

- That wretched boy that did consort him here

- I'd like to look at a few clips from films

Everything is meant to like kill and drive that objective

- I always want to know where the actors end

[swords clanking] They do a lot of face time.

This is certainly not Liam Neeson's first fight on camera.

And this fight was choreographed by the way

by Bill Hobbs who passed away just last year,

probably the greatest sword master for film.

In a good film, the fight really tells a story

In a fight like this, that wasn't a fight just for,

you know, for fun or for the spectacle of it.

So our job is to make sure that that fight kind of finds out

and help them, you know, fulfill their objective,

These are the swords that we are going to be using.

So the fencing blades are nice and light.

When you hold it, this is called the hilt.

Everything that's not the blade is the hilt.

and let your fingers go in this curved part

Your pointer finger, you want to slip through

this little area right here called the pas-d'ane

and that will give you a little bit more control

- You would hold it like you would a bird:

because you want a lot of flexibility in your wrist.

You want to be able to move the weapon all sorts

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