"T3" SET PART 4: TX GETS BUSY IN BATHROOM! Kristanna Loken: Looks can kill! Reported By: Randy Jennings Thursday, September 12, 2002 TheArnoldFans' last destination on our T3: Rise of the Machines tour was to witness the TX do battle with The T-800. Unfortunately Arnold had wrapped already but we were still treated to watch Kristanna Loken do her thing in the bathroom. We also got to interview the TX herself once her stunt was performed. This bathroom fight will hopefully not remind you of the "True Lies" bathroom shootout. It shouldn't. These are completely different and from what we know, this will be cinema's ultimate bathroom brawl! Mostow responded to this very question of T3 possibly paying homage to the bathroom fight from True Lies. Mostow: No. In fact, it's funny because when you're in the process of thinking these things up, you think, "Oh, let's have a fight in the bathroom. That'll be really cool." And you think nobody's done it before and then somebody says, "Yeah, it was done in another movie." What movie? True Lies. You've gotta be kidding me. The thing you learn is no idea hasn't been done. There's not a single idea that you hear that somebody in a group of this size, somebody goes, "Oh, I saw that in About Last Night" or something, whatever the movie is. You try to do it in a different way. After the first few takes of the TX in action, we were invited to actually walk on the bathroom set. It was the aftermath of cyborg destruction at its finest: large metal beams, dividing urinals and gripped by robotic hands, were twisted in ruin. There's more! All the black marble walls had dozens of holes - obviously made by rammed heads, an abundance of rubble littered the wet floor, mirrors were shattered and there was even one hole in the wall large enough for a whole body to have been tossed through. Back to the monitors we watched Kristanna film her scene involving a blue-screen torso which would later be a digital Terminator. No, not all shots will be digital of course, just a few of the most challenging ones. The TX picks up the bluescreen object, gripped from shoulder to crotch, and holds "him" horizontal. She repeatedly rams the T-800 into a bathroom wall until the shot is perfect. The cracked sink below the wall is spurting out water. On one of the last takes before Loken finishes, it is obvious she had hurt her hand on one of the rammings into the wall. The The 5' 11" Kristanna is now ready for the interview. She is beautiful with flawless skin, wears tight, reddish leather and her hair is tied back into a tight bun. Is this your look for the entire movie? KL: Most of it. 90 percent of it. How do you make yourself imposing to Arnold? KL: I guess believing in my strength through all the training. Probably that, really just having that core belief of physical strength. How robotic do you have to be? KL: Because it's a female terminator that we haven't seen before, I really had certain liberties to create my own. Some people say that it's kind of a mixture between Arnold and Robert Patrick's character, but she really plays a lot with the feminine side to kind of get what she wants, to obtain her objectives. How so? KL: Just by using her feminine charms. A robot has feminine whiles? KL: Yup, yup. She has a target and she'll do whatever it takes to get it. Did you talk to Robert Patrick? KL: No, I've never met him. Did you hurt your hand shooting this scene? KL: Yeah, yeah. That's part for the course. I've had all sorts of bruises. Has Arnold hurt you accidentally? KL: No, no, no. He was very conscious. Did you ever hurt him? KL: No, no, no. Not for what he's worth. How complex is the fight choreography? KL: Well, it's different in the fact that you haven't seen anything like it because it's just sheer force. With the weight of the terminators and everything, it's a lot of really violent, large scale things. What's the biggest stunt or action you've had to do? KL: Well, this whole sequence is pretty much the culmination of the big fight. It takes place on three different sets and the majority of it happens in the bathroom. And Working with Arnold? KL: At first it was a bit out of body in the sense that I am supposed to be overpowering him and I'm like, OYeah, but it's Arnold.' But then after a while, you just start believing it and he's been extremely accommodating and really great to work with and just such a powerful, wonderful presence. So skilled in what he does and it's just been a really wonderful learning experience. Trust me guys, this TX is a looker. We know we all anticipate her arrival from the future... and the future is July, 2nd 2003! Stay tuned here at TheArnoldFans for many more interviews with the cast and crew! You'll be back! ---------- |